Allegory of Rome
| Reference: | S50039 |
| Author | Johannes van der Straet STRADANUS |
| Year: | 1662 |
| Measures: | 150 x 210 mm |
€600.00
| Reference: | S50039 |
| Author | Johannes van der Straet STRADANUS |
| Year: | 1662 |
| Measures: | 150 x 210 mm |
€600.00
Description
Statue of Roma (Minerva) with helmet and staff in her hands, at her right the bearded river god Tiber with his overturned amphora, at left the she-wolf with the infants Romulus and Remus, behind the statues a view of Rome with the Pantheon at left and the Tiber island at top right; after an engraving by Cornelis Cort after Stradanus; illustration to Cornelis de Bie's "Het Gulden Cabinet" (Joannes Meyssens: Antwerp, 1662).
Engraving, lettered in lower margin with two columns, each with two lines of Latin: "Orbis Roma caput ... / super astra tulit.".
Copy in reverse after part of the engraving 'The Practice of the visual arts' by Cort after Stradanus. Added in the background the panorama of the city, where the Antonine Column, the Pantheon and Castel Sant'Angelo can be recognised.
A good impression, printed on contemporary laid paper, with margins, good condition.
Bibliografia
The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 - Cornelis Cort; n. 210 copy c.
Johannes van der Straet STRADANUS (Bruges 1523 - Firenze 1605)
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Flemish painter and draughtsman, active in Italy. The traces of his Flemish artistic heritage were much appreciated in the refined Mannerist circle, led by Vasari, in which he was active in Florence. He was especially skilled as a designer of tapestry cycles.
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Johannes van der Straet STRADANUS (Bruges 1523 - Firenze 1605)
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Flemish painter and draughtsman, active in Italy. The traces of his Flemish artistic heritage were much appreciated in the refined Mannerist circle, led by Vasari, in which he was active in Florence. He was especially skilled as a designer of tapestry cycles.
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