Illustriss. Equiti Cassiano Ioannem Altum, militem praetorianum, romanarum antiquitatum cælo expressum ad te Romæ...MDCXXIII. Franciscus Villamoena, 1773. Villamena, Francesco, approximately 1566-1624, engraver. 1773 Piazza del Quirinale The full-length portrait is of the Swiss Guardsman Ioannes Altus, also known as Johann Alten, Johann Alt and Giovanni Alto. Altus is depicted in military costume, with a plumed hat and a sword in the Piazza del Quirinale. His right arm is lifted and he gestures to the viewer to look towards the antiquities behind him.
Illustriss. Equiti Cassiano Ioannem Altum, militem praetorianum, romanarum antiquitatum cælo expressum ad te Romæ...MDCXXIII. Franciscus Villamoena, 1773. Villamena, Francesco, approximately 1566-1624, engraver. 1773 Piazza del Quirinale The full-length portrait is of the Swiss Guardsman Ioannes Altus, also known as Johann Alten, Johann Alt and Giovanni Alto. Altus is depicted in military costume, with a plumed hat and a sword in the Piazza del Quirinale. His right arm is lifted and he gestures to the viewer to look towards the antiquities behind him. He is surrounded by sculpture fragments, a skull, a snake and a starving animal in the foreground. In the background, figures mill around the square and the city is visible in the distance. The engraving is a 1773 reprint by the publisher and print dealer Carlo Losi from a 1623 work by Francesco Villamena. With illegible collector's mark, in blue ink, in the lower right hand corner. Ref.: Arrigoni-Bertarelli 2709 (cited as part of a series of portraits). Imprint: Rome, Carolum Losi. Text in Latin. Dedicated to Cassiano dal Pozzo. Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt collected prints, published works, drawings and paintings thematically focused upon the city of Rome. Her collection included views, plans, maps of Rome and depictions of the inhabitants of the city in popular costume. As intense urban development under Mussolini transformed Rome in the 1930's, interest in the city's past grew among certain circles in Rome. Pecci-Blunt's collection came to be known as "Roma Sparita" because of its nostalgic focus on the Rome of a bygone era. Pecci-Blunt marked many of the prints in her collection with her collector's marks. Small, circular marks found on the recto of the prints, typically in the lower right corner, display Pecci-Blunt's family coat of arms, a comet, encircled with the text: "Coll. A. L. Pecci Blunt." Circular marks on the verso of the prints, typically in the lower ce
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