Nicolas Beatrizet

French, 1515 - 1565 or after

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Printed with black ink on white paper, this map shows a bird’s-eye views of a river winding through a town surrounded by empty fields and hills, all encased in city walls. The buildings and fields are spaced over several hills, many of which are labeled in Latin in all capital letters. The hills are finely crosshatched to suggest depth, and the buildings are drawn roughly in perspective, as if looking across the city from a high vantage point. Near the center of the engraving, densely packed buildings are separated by thin gaps to create irregular city blocks. The crowded blocks give way to open space and hills dotted with buildings, steeples, and ruins. Fragments of free-standing rows of arches in the fields to the south are the remains of aqueducts. The city wall is punctuated by arched openings framed by abutments that project above the top of the walls. The river winds from the top left corner of the paper to the center of the right edge, intersecting with the city walls in two places. Dozens of hills, features, landmarks, and buildings are labeled, including the round, domed “PANTEON” in the middle of the town, “CAPITOLINVS” a few blocks to our left, and “PALANTINVS” to our left of center. Near the upper right corner of the paper, several building-lined streets lead up to a hill labeled “VATICANVS.” Beyond the city walls the page is almost entirely blank. The page is folded vertically up the center. In the lower right corner, an inscription in a tablet-like cartouche reads, “RECENS RVRSVS POST OMNES OMNIVM DES CRIPTION. VRB, ROMAE TOPOGRAPHIA. CVM VALLIS. FOSSIS AGGRISVS CAETERISQ. QVAE AD HOSTI VM IMPEDIEND. IRRVPTION. PER VNIVERSVM VRB.AMBITVM INTRA EXTRAQ. MOEN. PVB LIC. IMPEN. FIERI CVRAVIT PAVL. IIII. PONT. MAX. DVM BELLO PARTHENOP. PREMERETVR. FORMIS ANTON.LAFRE RIL. SEQVAN. DILIGENTISS. EXPRESS. AN. D. LVII. CON GRA ET PREVILEGIO.” A thin, line border frames the map near the edge of the paper.
Nicolas Beatrizet, Topographical Map of Ancient Rome, 1557, engraving, Gift of Lois and Robert Erburu, 2000.119.1.c

Topographical Map of Ancient Rome

Nicolas Beatrizet · 1557 · engraving ·  Accession ID  2000.119.1.c

Nicolas Beatrizet, Henri II, King of France, 1556, engraving, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1973.34.1

Henri II, King of France

Nicolas Beatrizet · 1556 · engraving ·  Accession ID  1973.34.1

Nicolas Beatrizet, Roman Soldiers Fighting the Dacians, 1553, engraving, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1975.34.11

Roman Soldiers Fighting the Dacians

Nicolas Beatrizet · 1553 · engraving ·  Accession ID  1975.34.11

Nicolas Beatrizet, Antonio Lafreri, Palazzo Farnese, 1549, engraving, The Ahmanson Foundation, 2012.46.1.21

Palazzo Farnese

Nicolas Beatrizet, Antonio Lafreri · 1549 · engraving ·  Accession ID  2012.46.1.21

This rectangular, light brown cover is marbled with darker brown, and the edges are worn and chipped. The spine, to our left, is bound by a light tan strip and divided vertically by five projecting ribs spaced along its height. Four small dark brown spots appear on the upper right corner, with a scattering of similar spots over the lower left section.
Antonio Lafreri, Antonio Salamanca, Tommaso Barlacchi, Giacomo Lauro, Étienne Dupérac, Vincenzo Luchino, Jacob Bos, Bartolomeo Faleti, Nicolas Beatrizet, Pedro Perret, Enea Vico, Ferrando Bertelli, Marco Dente, Monogrammist HCB, Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (Mirror of Roman Magnificence), 1544-1599, bound volume of 55 etched and engraved illustrations, including 3 later 16th century plates, The Ahmanson Foundation, 2012.46.1

Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (Mirror of Roman Magnificence)

Antonio Lafreri, Antonio Salamanca, Tommaso Barlacchi, Giacomo Lauro, Étienne Dupérac, Vincenzo Luchino, Jacob Bos, Bartolomeo Faleti, Nicolas Beatrizet, Pedro Perret, Enea Vico, Ferrando Bertelli, Marco Dente, Monogrammist HCB · 1544-1599 · bound volume of 55 etched and engraved illustrations, including 3 later 16th century plates ·  Accession ID  2012.46.1

Nicolas Beatrizet, Antonio Salamanca, The Death of Meleager, 1543, engraving on laid paper, Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund, 2019.132.1

The Death of Meleager

Nicolas Beatrizet, Antonio Salamanca · 1543 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2019.132.1

Nicolas Beatrizet, The Massacre of the Innocents, 1540s(?), engraving on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund and Purchased as the Gift of Robert B. Loper, 2014.57.1

The Massacre of the Innocents

Nicolas Beatrizet · 1540s(?) · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2014.57.1

Nicolas Beatrizet, Colosseum, engraving, Gift of Lois and Robert Erburu, 2000.119.1.kk

Colosseum

Nicolas Beatrizet · · engraving ·  Accession ID  2000.119.1.kk

Nicolas Beatrizet, The River God Nile, engraving on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 2006.34.1

The River God Nile

Nicolas Beatrizet · · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2006.34.1

Nicolas Beatrizet, Striding Man, engraving with stipple on laid paper, Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection), 1980.14.5

Striding Man

Nicolas Beatrizet · · engraving with stipple on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1980.14.5