National Gallery of Art · Print
Aristotle
Italian 16th Century, after Enea Vico, published by Antonio Lafreri
- Date
- 1553
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- plate: 41.1 × 28.8 cm (16 3/16 × 11 5/16 in.)
- Classification
- Accession number
- 2012.46.1.47
- Credit line
- The Ahmanson Foundation
- Time span
- 1551 to 1600
- 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 LC, in Greek: "He ek tou agalmatos tou Aristotelous eikon ti de he techne tes physeos diapherei;" Lettered LC, in Latin: "Agnosce effigiem, naturae maximus hic est condus opum atuqe idem promus Aristoteles. Romae Anno D MDLIII Ant. Lafrerij Romae"
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