• Pirro Ligorio (draughtsman)
• Nicolas Beatrizet (engraver (printmaker))

Bird's-eye perspective of Pirro Ligorio's reconstruction for the Circus Maximus, Rome

printed 1553

• theoretical drawing

Engraving on laid paper

sheet: 38.3 x 55.4 cm (15 1/16 x 21 13/16 in.)

DR1979:0277

• line drawing

• perspective drawing

• general view
• bird's-eye view
• exterior view
• interior view

- Sheet is trimmed within plate mark and has an old horizontal fold through c.

inscribed, dated and signed - by the engraver, in the plate above the image, u.l.: "ANTIQVITATVM STVDIOSIS / EN VOBIS CANDIDISSIMI ANTIQVITATVM STVDIOSI CERCI MAXIMI DESCRIPTIONEM NON QVALEM PLANE / SCIOLI [...] PYRRHI / LIGORII PICTORIS NEAPOLITANI [...] CVM MICHAELIS TRAMEZINI [...]"; u.r.: "LEX / IVLI TERTII PONTIFICIS OPTIMI MAXIMI IVSSI SANCIONE / AC DECRETIO [...] ANNO ACHRISTONATO M D LIII [...]"; in the plate on the image, in various locations: with compass points and identification of features; and l.r.: "N. BEAVTRIZET / LOTARRINGIAE" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, u.r.: "34" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, in various locations: "34"

• architecture