Ichnographia Templi Divi Petri [Plan of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome]

1569

Étienne Dupérac, after Michelangelo

Associated Names
Étienne Dupérac

Engraver, French, c. 1525 - 1601/1604

Étienne Dupérac

Publisher, French, c. 1525 - 1601/1604

Michelangelo

Artist After, Florentine, 1475 - 1564

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    The Ahmanson Foundation

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 48 × 41.8 cm (18 7/8 × 16 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.46.1.6

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rubach, no. 368, state i/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

1932

  • Linzeler, André. Inventaire du fonds français; graveurs du seizième siècle. Paris, 1932: I.317, no. 52.

1967

  • Robert-Dumesnil, A.P.F. Le peintre-graveur français, ou Catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française. Ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur de Bartsch.. Reprint (11 vols. in 6). Paris, 1967: VIII.104.52

2016

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

Inscriptions

Lettered upper left and right: "Ichnographia Templi Divi Petri Romae in Vaticano ex esemplari Michaelis Angeli Bonaroti Florentini a Stephano Duperac Parisiensi in hanc formam cum suis modulis accurate proporionaeteque delineata et in lucem aedita anno Domini MDLXIX"

Wikidata ID

Q77259553

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