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Ideal Cityscape or 'True Representation of the Capitoline Hill in Antiquity' (Vera Antiqui Capitoli Descriptio). Right Sheet of a Three-part View.

1602
Not on view
Left side of a three-part view of an ideal city, known through the title on the center sheet as 'Vera Antiqui Capitoli Descriptio', or a true representation of the buildings on the Capitoline Hill during Roman Antiquity. The style of the building is based on Quattrocento ideas about Roman architecture, and ties into a genre now considered to be 'fantastical reconstructions' of ruins or literary descriptions of buildings. The history of this print can be traced back only to the mid-16th century, however, when it was published by Antonio Salamanca in Rome. It is known in various editions with the publisher's signatures of Lafreri, Claudio Duchetti, Henricus van Schoel and Giovanni Orlandi.

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Object Information
  • Title: Ideal Cityscape or 'True Representation of the Capitoline Hill in Antiquity' (Vera Antiqui Capitoli Descriptio). Right Sheet of a Three-part View.
  • Engraver: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century
  • Publisher: Giovanni Orlandi (Italian, active Rome, then Naples, from ca. 1590–1613, died 1640)
  • Publisher: Formerly published by Hendrick van Schoel (Flemish, active Rome, ca. 1565–1622)
  • Publisher: Formerly published by Claudio Duchetti (Italian, active Venice and Rome, ca. 1565–died ca. 1585)
  • Publisher: Formerly published by Antonio Lafreri (French, Orgelet, Franche-Comte ca. 1512–1577 Rome)
  • Publisher: Formerly published by Antonio Salamanca (Italian (born Spain), Salamanca 1478–1562 Rome)
  • Published in: Rome
  • Date: 1602
  • Medium: Engraving [5th edition]
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 16 9/16 × 11 1/4 in. (42.1 × 28.6 cm) [cut within plate mark]
  • Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1955
  • Object Number: 55.590.6
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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