print
- Museum number
- 1859,0806.310
- Description
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Alexander the Great kneeling before the High Priest of Ammon; in the background Bramante's Tempietto in S.Pietro in Montorio. c.1540
Engraving
- Production date
- 1530-1535
- Dimensions
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Height: 249 millimetres
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Width: 195 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- For a recent discussion, see Catherine Goguel in 'Francesco Salviati o la Bella Maniera', Rome 1998, cat.111. Both Bartsch and Hind thought the engraving earlier than it actually is. The confirmation that the designer was Salviati came when his preparatory drawing for the priest appeared at auction in 1991. Bartsch thought that the subject of the print was the Emperor Theodosius kneeling before St Ambrose: but the priest's hat shows that he is not of the Christian church. John Gere thought it might be Alexander before the priest of Ammon rather than the high priest in Jerusalem. Another possibility is that it is Abraham kneeling before Melchisedek.
See also Jay A. Levinson, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jacquelyn Sheehan, Early Italian Engravings from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 186.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2022-2023 21 Oct-19 Feb, London, British Library, Alexander: Legend of a Life
- Acquisition date
- 1859
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1859,0806.310
