• Antoine Lafréry (publisher)
• Etienne Du Pérac (engraver (printmaker))
• Pope Paul III (patron)
• Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (architect)

Perspective of the coronation of Cosimo II de'Medici in the Sala Regia, Vatican Palace, Rome

printed between 1570-1573

• record drawing

Engraving and etching on laid paper

sheet: 35.9 x 49.7 cm (14 1/8 x 19 9/16 in.)

DR1979:0327

• line drawing

• perspective drawing

• general view
• interior view

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

inscribed and dated - by the engraver ? in the plate on the image, c.l.: "Descriptio coronte / Pius VP M ob eximiam dilectionem ac catholice / Religionis Zelum [...]" [inscription underneath the arms of the Grand Duke]; and c.r.: "Essendo venuto in Roma il Ser.mo Gran / Duca di Toscana per ringratiare S. S.ta / del Titolo concessegli, et per coronarsi / a Di xviij di Febraro 1570 fece l'in= / trata publica solenemente accompagnato da / tutta la Corte in mezzo à doi Car.li et fu / ricevuto da S. Sta in Concistorio publico / nella Sala Regia come nel presnte / disegno si vede." [on plaque on Sala Regia wall] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, u.r.: "84" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, in various locations: "84"

• architecture
• architecture temporaire

• coronation