National Gallery of Art · Print
Attila at the Gates of Rome
Giovanni Battista Bracelli, after Alessandro Algardi
- Date
- 1649
- Medium
- etching on laid paper [proof]
- Dimensions
- plate: 39.2 × 26 cm (15 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.) sheet: 40.7 × 27.2 cm (16 × 10 11/16 in.)
- Classification
- Accession number
- 2016.151.3
- Credit line
- Purchased as the Gift of Bert Freidus
- Time span
- 1601 to 1650
- Department
- CG-E
Subjects and terms
- Battle
- inscription
- calligraphic
- Sword
- Figures
- Cloud
Provenance
(Antiquarius srl, Rome); purchased 2016 by NGA.
Inscription
Upper left in plate: Equiti Alexandri / Langardi / Bononiensis / Sculptoris / Celeberrimi / Perspicuu / S; upper right in plate: Celature opus in Vaticana / Basilica omnium / admiratione / erectum / anno Dom / MDC. / XXXX / VIIII; lower left in image: Superioru Licenza; lower right in plate: Io Batista / Braccellus / Flo Pi incidebat; across lower edge in plate: Venerat armato metuendus milite Romam / Attilas, iuratus moerica diruerc / Sed Roma gemino quasi fulmine Celu / Increpat, et sacro prosilitore Leo. / Isolito terrore labaris stetit Attila / Tantu sistere debuerant fulmina Tanta Duce
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