A drawer with the image of the Tiber (Marforio) Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (series title) Image of the river Tiber, also called Marforio, one of the most striking images of Rome, the Roman Forum. The left is an artist on a marble block. Under four blocks with inscriptions in Latin and a cartouche with text in Latin. The print is part of a album. Manufacturer : printmaker: anonymous printmaker: Nicolas Beatrizet (attributed to) publisher: Antonio Lafreri (listed property) Place manufacture: printmaker Italy Print Author: Italy Publisher: Rome Date: 1550 Physical features: etching and engra
A drawer with the image of the Tiber (Marforio) Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (series title) Image of the river Tiber, also called Marforio, one of the most striking images of Rome, the Roman Forum. The left is an artist on a marble block. Under four blocks with inscriptions in Latin and a cartouche with text in Latin. The print is part of a album. Manufacturer : printmaker: anonymous printmaker: Nicolas Beatrizet (attributed to) publisher: Antonio Lafreri (listed property) Place manufacture: printmaker Italy Print Author: Italy Publisher: Rome Date: 1550 Physical features: etching and engra material: paper Technique : engra (printing process) / etching dimensions: sheet margin: h: 380 mm × W 431 mmToelichtingDeze print part of the print corpus that is known as the 'Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae "(" Mirror of Roman pomp'). This corpus, consisting of prints with images of artworks and buildings from the ancient and modern Rome, stemmed from publishers Antonio Salamanca Antonio Lafreri. These two foreign publishers joined forces to Rome in the period 1553-1563. Their prints were soon very popular with tourists and collectors, which prints aanschaften individually or in large groups. Groups Speculum-prints were tied together often negotiated in albums. There are several Speculum albums narrated all different content. Between 1573 and 1577 Antonio Lafreri gave a special title page (entitled 'Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae) that could add people to their collections. The death of Lafreri in 1577 was not the end of the corpus. Much of the copper plates was about Claudio and Stefano Duchetti. The rest was distributed among various other publishers. The popularity of the Speculum-prints knew for some time to inspire publishers to the making of copies and adding new pictures to corpus. Subject: draftsman studying classical Remain piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture river personified, 'Fiumi' (Ripa) Where: Tiber Forum Romanum
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