print;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- 1886,1124.330.1
- Title
- Series: Admiranda Romanarum Antiquitatum (The Wonders of Ancient Rome)
- Description
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Frontispiece to a series of eighty-four plates after ancient Roman sculpture (mainly relief sculpture), with the bust portrait of cardinal Flavio Chigi turned to the right, in an oval decorated with laurel wreaths, ribbons, palms and branches; the oval is placed above a plinth containing the dedication to Cardinal Chigi, and is flanked by two herms. 1693
Etching
- Production date
- 1693
- Dimensions
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Height: 240 millimetres
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Height: 460 millimetres
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Width: 355 millimetres (image)
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Width: 357 millimetres (platemark)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A series of eighty-four numbered plates by Pietro di Santi Bartoli after ancient Roman relief sculpture from the Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Farnese, Villa Medici and Palazzo Barberini. The title page preceding the frontispiece is lettered 'Admiranda Romanarum Antiquitatum Ac Veteris Sculpturae Vestigia Anaglyphico Opere elaborata [...] a Petro Sancti Bartolo delineata incisa [...] Notis Io. Petri Bellorii illustrata [...] edita a Ioanne Iacobo de Rubeis, restituit auxit Dominicus de Rubeis Chalcographus Anno MDCXVIII. Romae ad Templum S. M. de Pace, cum Privil. Summi Pont. et Licentia Superiorum'. Plates 33, 34, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51 78 and 79 are lacking.
The publication is bound in dark blue leather with title on the spine 'P.S. Bartoli Romanarum Antiquitatum Vestigia Rome 1693'.
For further information about this album, see Anna Grelle Iusco, 'Indice delle stampe intagliate in rame a bulino, e in acqua forte', Rome 1998, p. 174 (17)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1886
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1886,1124.330.1