Capitolii Sciographia [View of the Roman Capitol]

1569

Étienne Dupérac, after Michelangelo

Associated Names
Étienne Dupérac

Etcher, 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: 37.7 × 54.4 cm (14 13/16 × 21 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.46.1.14

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rubach, no. 364, state i/v

  • 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. 91a.

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.103.49, i/ii

2016

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

Inscriptions

Lettered along the top margin: "Capitolii sciographia ex ipso exemplari Michaelis Angeli Bonaroti a Stephano Du Perac Parisiensi accurate delineata et in lucem aedita Romae anno salutis MDLXIX"

Wikidata ID

Q77259581

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