The Dioscuri [Frontal View]

1546

Antonio Lafreri

Publisher, Italian, 1512 - 1577

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    The Ahmanson Foundation

  • Dimensions

    plate: 37 × 51.9 cm (14 9/16 × 20 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.46.1.45

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rubach, no. 317, state i/iii

Associated Artworks

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Italian 16th Century

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Jacob Bos, Antonio Salamanca

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Pantheum Romanum [The Roman Pantheon]

Italian 16th Century, Antonio Lafreri, Nicolas Beatrizet

1549


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Weingarten Monastery, Swabia, 1632 (title page inscription in the NGA "Speculum"). Cistercian Abbey of Notre-Dame du Val-Dieu, Belgium (bookplate: Ex libris Vallis Dei). English export license recording the sale of this volume in 1974 by E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., Ltd., London; Daniel Donahue, Santa Barbara, CA; (Liber Antiquus, Washington, D.C.); purchased 2012 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1921

  • Huelsen, Christian. "Das Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae des Antonio Lafreri." Collectanea variae doctrinae Leoni Olschki. Munich: 1921: no. 53a

2016

  • Rubach, Birte. Ant. Lafreri Formis Romae: Der Verleger Antonio Lafreri und seine Druckgraphikproduktion. Berlin, 2016.

Inscriptions

Lettered LR: "Ant. Lafreri Sequani Formis"

Wikidata ID

Q77259649


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