Pantheum Romanum [The Roman Pantheon]

1549

Nicolaus Beatrizet, reworked by Italian 16th Century, published by Antonio Lafreri

Associated Names
Nicolas Beatrizet

Engraver, French, 1515 - 1565 or after

Antonio Lafreri

Publisher, Italian, 1512 - 1577

Media Options

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    The Ahmanson Foundation

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 39.1 × 47 cm (15 3/8 × 18 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.46.1.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rubach, no. 261 iii/iv

  • 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

Balnei Laterani [The Lateran Baptistry]

Italian 16th Century, Antonio Lafreri

1544

The Pantheon

Italian 16th Century, Antonio Lafreri

1553


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. 5a

2016

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

Inscriptions

Lettered lower center: "An. Lafreri Romae. 1549"
Lettered upper center: "Pantheum Romanum nunc Mariae cognomento Rotundae notum ad antiquam suam effigiem et formam expressum"
Lettered lower right, within an amphora: "Labrum ex porphyrite...iusserunt"

Wikidata ID

Q77259549

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