print;
title-page
- Museum number
- 1932,0519.8
- Title
- Series: Praecipua aliquot Romanae Antiquitatis Ruinarum Monimenta ...
- Description
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Title page of series of views of Roman ruins, depicting trophies and an altar-like structure set within a grotto, after Hieronymus Cock. 1575
Etching
- Production date
- 1575
- Dimensions
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Height: 194 millimetres
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Width: 270 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- This is the title page to the series of prints showing Roman ruins to illustrate the treatise by Vincenzo Scamozzi 'Discorsi sopra le antichità di Roma' (Venice, 1582) based on Hieronymus Cock's series first published in 1551 (see Hollstein 22-47). Most of Pittoni's prints do not exactly replicate Cock's prints but are very close and clearly based on his. For comment on Cock's series see Peter Fuhring, in J. van Grieken - G. Luijten - J. van der Stock, "Hieronymus Cock: The Renaissance in Print", exh.cat. Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels and Fondation Custodia in Paris, New Haven and London, 2013, cat.no.9.
Pittoni also made a series of mythological landscapes (from which 1932,0519.1 to 7 come).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1932
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1932,0519.8
