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Balnei Laterani [The Lateran Baptistry]
Italian 16th Century, published by Antonio Lafreri
- Date
- 1544/1572
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- sheet: 40 × 50.9 cm (15 3/4 × 20 1/16 in.)
- Classification
- Accession number
- 2012.46.1.1
- Credit line
- The Ahmanson Foundation
- Time span
- 1501 to 1550
- Department
- CG-E
Portfolio and series
- Series
- Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (Mirror of Roman Magnificence)
Subjects and terms
- etching
- engraving
- Roman
- Classical
- Antiquity
Provenance
Weingarten Monastery, Swabia, 1632 (title page inscription in the NGA "Speculum"). Cistercian Abbey of Notre-Dame du Val-Dieu, Belgium (bookplate: Ex libris Vallis Dei). English export license recording the sale of this volume in 1974 by E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., Ltd., London; Daniel Donahue, Santa Barbara, CA; (Liber Antiquus, Washington, D.C.); purchased 2012 by NGA.
Inscription
Lettered lower center: "Ant. Lafreri. Exc." and "Balnei Laterani et in eo ad curandam Constant. Caes. Elephantiasim innoxio infantium sanguini suscipiendo primum parati Labri, ac mox conversa in pietatem crudelitate, eiusdem baptismo destinati, simulacrum. Romae." a
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