Perspective of the Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella, Rome

People:

Antoine Lafréry (publisher)
Unknown, Italy, mid 16th century (engraver (printmaker))

Title:

Perspective of the Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella, Rome

Date:

printed 1549

Form:
works of art

Quantity / Object type:
1 print(s)

Stage and Purpose:

record drawing

Technique and media:

Engraving on laid paper

Dimensions:

sheet: 49.7 x 34.5 cm (19 9/16 x 13 9/16 in.)

Reference number:

DR1979:0281

Drawing Type:

line drawing

Method of Projection:

perspective drawing

Point of View:

general view
exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed and dated - by the engraver ? in the plate above the image, t.: "AD METELLAE ECHO / CRETICVS HIC NATAM CRASSVS HVMASSE IVGALEM / FERTVR ET HINC QVESTVS CONGEMINARE LOCVM"; in the plate on the image, u.c.: "CAECILIAE / Q CRETICI F / METELLAE CRASSI" [on monument]; and in the plate below the image, l.l. to l.r.: "Metellae Vxoris Crassi sepulchrum, editiore Appiae viae loco conspicuum. Est igitur opus ampliore ac rotunda mole, ex lapide quadrato / Tiburtino; marmoreo Zophoro trophaeis et boum capitibus insigni, vulgo notum. Vt autem, antiquitate, hippodromo Caracallae, / Tullique testimonio clarum est; ita, totidem verborum sententiam Echo quinquies reddente, omnibus admirabile prope, videatur. / Antonij Lafrerij Romae 1549." numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print outside the plate mark, u.r.: "38"

Subject:

architecture

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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