Roma antiqua triumphatrix ab antiquis monumentis et rerum gestarum memoriis eruta / hic a J. Lauro Romano, auctore et sculptore, graphice expressa. Lauro, Giacomo, active 17th century, cartographer, engraver. [16--] The bird's-eye view of ancient Rome by Giacomo Lauro was derived from Etienne du Pérac's large view of Rome. Printed from two separate plates on two sheets subsequently joined at vertical edges. List of buildings and sites numbered 1-279, keyed to view. At outer margin is a band of 16 engraved scenes from Roman history interspersed with 20 numbered explanatory texts. Heads of the
Roma antiqua triumphatrix ab antiquis monumentis et rerum gestarum memoriis eruta / hic a J. Lauro Romano, auctore et sculptore, graphice expressa. Lauro, Giacomo, active 17th century, cartographer, engraver. [16--] The bird's-eye view of ancient Rome by Giacomo Lauro was derived from Etienne du Pérac's large view of Rome. Printed from two separate plates on two sheets subsequently joined at vertical edges. List of buildings and sites numbered 1-279, keyed to view. At outer margin is a band of 16 engraved scenes from Roman history interspersed with 20 numbered explanatory texts. Heads of the 7 kings of Rome appear at upper left, heads of the 12 Caesars at upper right. Title and imprint at top center. Oriented with east at top. Relief conveyed pictorially. In marginal text, Lauro refers to his Antiquae urbis splendor (published 1612), so the view must have been engraved between that date and his death in 1650; see Frutaz. This span is narrowed by the probability that the present view is that signed by Lauro in 1635; see Iusco. It must have been published by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi between the beginning of his publishing activity in 1649 and the 1677 index of his publications which includes this view; see Frutaz.
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