Balnei Laterani [The Lateran Baptistry]
1544/1572
Italian 16th Century, published by Antonio Lafreri
Engraver
Publisher, Italian, 1512 - 1577
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 40 × 50.9 cm (15 3/4 × 20 1/16 in.)
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Accession Number
2012.46.1.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Rubach, no. 267, state ii/iv
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Series Title
Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (Mirror of Roman Magnificence)
Associated Artworks
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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
The Pantheon
Italian 16th Century, Antonio Lafreri
1553
Pantheum Romanum [The Roman Pantheon]
Nicolas Beatrizet, Italian 16th Century, Antonio Lafreri
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
1802
Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: XV.271.103
1921
Huelsen, Christian. "Das Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae des Antonio Lafreri." Collectanea variae doctrinae Leoni Olschki. Munich: 1921: no. 11a.
2016
Rubach, Birte. Ant. Lafreri Formis Romae: Der Verleger Antonio Lafreri und seine Druckgraphikproduktion. Berlin, 2016.
Inscriptions
Lettered lower center: "Ant. Lafreri. Exc." and "Balnei Laterani et in eo ad curandam Constant. Caes. Elephantiasim innoxio infantium sanguini suscipiendo primum parati Labri, ac mox conversa in pietatem crudelitate, eiusdem baptismo destinati, simulacrum. Romae." a
Wikidata ID
Q77259546