Wooden Falsework Supporting a Vault

1561

Jacob Bos, after Antonio da Sangallo, published by Antonio Lafreri

Associated Names
Jacob Bos

Engraver, Netherlandish, 1549 - 1580

Antonio Lafreri

Publisher, Italian, 1512 - 1577

Antonio da Sangallo

Artist After, Italian, 1483 - 1546

Michelangelo

Artist After, Florentine, 1475 - 1564

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    The Ahmanson Foundation

  • Dimensions

    image: 32.3 × 46.6 cm (12 11/16 × 18 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 40.2 × 53.9 cm (15 13/16 × 21 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.46.1.10

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rubach, no. 370, state i/ii

  • 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. 97a.

2016

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

Inscriptions

Lettered lower right: "Iacobus Bossius Belga Summa diligentia circino excepit in aesque incidit"
Lettered lower left: "Ant.o Lafrerj Sequanj Formis Roma Anno 1561"
Lettered upper left: "La presente Figura dimostra una armadura o vero Invacallatura delle volte di San Pietro di Roma fatta da M.ro Ant.o da Sangallo et ancora messa in opera da Michael Ang. Buonaroto pur nelle medisime volte fatte da luj. e volendo sapere..."

Wikidata ID

Q77259573

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