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Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae. Bifolio print of the Pantheon from the front with ancient sculptures in the foreground.

Maker

(publisher)
1512-1577

(printmaker)
born 1507 or 1515, died ca. 1565 (Life dates)

Title

Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae. Bifolio print of the Pantheon from the front with ancient sculptures in the foreground.

Date of Production

1549

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 39.1 cm
Width: 46.6 cm

Accession Number

B.1978.PG.102.7

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Label Text

The Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (‘Mirror of Roman Magnificence’), one of the most celebrated print collections of the Renaissance, is unique in that no two known examples are alike. Antoine Lafréry, a French publisher based in Rome, kept a large stock of prints depicting Roman antiquities, sculptures and contemporary architecture, from which clients could make a selection according to their individual interests. The volume was then bound with a standard frontispiece.

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Literature

Zorach, Rebecca, The Virtual Tourist in Renaissance Rome: printing and collecting the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae, Chicago 2008

Parshall, Peter, 'Antonio Lafreri's Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae' in 'Print Quarterly', 2006 - pp. 3-28; XXIII (I)

Huelsen, Christian, 'Das Speculum Magnificentiae des Antonio Lafreri' in Collectanea Variae Doctrinae, Florence 1921 - pp.121-170
cat.5.A
Fig. p. 143

Inscriptions

Print version: PANTHEVM ROMAN NVNC MARIAE COGNOMENTO ROTVNDAE NOTVM AD ANTIQVAM SVAM EFFIGIEM ET FORMAN EXPRESSVM

Inscription: M(ARCVS) AGRIPPA L(VCII) F(ILIVS) CO(N)S(VL) TERITVM FECIT.

Inscription: Labrum ex porphyrite, et duos ex ophite Leones Aegyptiis notis illistres, ex prosximis ut opinor Agrippae ac Neronis thermis, in celebriorem et ampliorem locum, pii Pontifices Maximi, ne situ squalloreve iacerent, propter Pantheum erigi collocarique iusserunt.

Inscription: ANT LAFRERI / ROMAE 1549

Inscription: 10

Inscription: 11

PANTHEVM ROMAN NVNC MARIAE COGNOMENTO ROTVNDAE NOTVM AD ANTIQVAM SVAM EFFIGIEM ET FORMAN EXPRESSVM

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