Moles, quam Hadrianus Imp. inxta Aelium pontem, e regione Mausolei Augusti...
| Reference: | S46340 |
| Author | Giovanni Battista de’ CAVALIERI |
| Year: | 1569 |
| Zone: | Castel Sant'Angelo |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 225 x 170 mm |
€350.00
| Reference: | S46340 |
| Author | Giovanni Battista de’ CAVALIERI |
| Year: | 1569 |
| Zone: | Castel Sant'Angelo |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 225 x 170 mm |
€350.00
Description
View taken from "Urbis Romae aedificiorum illustriumquae [...] supersunt reliquiae summa cum diligentia a Joanne Antonio Dosio stilo ferreo ut hodie cernuntur descriptae et a Jo Baptista de Cavaleriis aeneis tabulis incisis repraesentatae," the well-known collection of ancient Roman buildings published by Cavalieri in 1569 from drawings by architect and sculptor Giovanni Antonio Dosio.
A very important document depicting the new fortifications of Castel S. Angelo and the part of the Borgo that was demolished for the construction of Via della Conciliazione.
After an engraving by Giulio de Musi printed in Rome in 1557.
The engraving shows the temporary fortifications ordered by Pope Paul IV (1555-1559) and entrusted to Camillo Orsini (1493-1559), commander of the square of Parma and Captain General of the Pope's army, between 1556 and 1557, to counter the invasion of the Papal States by the Spaniards led by the Duke D'Alba. “As in the Borgo, fortifications were also executed in Trastevere and new external works in Castel S. Angelo. All this, however, was not enough against a serious attack, for however many bastions were begun, not a single one was accomplished” (von Pastor, VI, p. 396). The defenses in fact, not having time to prepare the proper masonry works, were completed by means of earth and bundles of wood. The threat of a raid by Spanish troops was averted by the peace signed at Cave on September 14, 1557, and on the very night between September 14 and 15, the posterned barricades collapsed under the pressure of an overflow of the Tiber.
Etching and engraving, printed on a contemporary laid paper, with margins, in very good condition.
Giovanni Battista de’ CAVALIERI (1525-1601)
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Engraver,printer and print publisher,from Villa Lagarina near Trento.Active in Venice and from 1559 in Rome.1577 he had a bottega in Parione which he let out to a cartolaio,Girolamo Agnelli. His own house was in the vicolo di Palazzo Savelli, with a workshop next to it. He was the brother-in-law of Lorenzo Vaccari.
Made plates for Antonio Salamanca, Lafrery and Faleti.By 1560 he seems to have been publishing his own plates. He entered into partnerships for publishing: in 1567 with Perino Zecchini de Guarlottis and in 1576 with Lorenzo Vaccari .In 1577 he was employng a printer: Francesco Cornuti .He acquired old plates that he recut. He published plates by his contemporaries,including Cort.He himself engraved after works of many artists,including Cort.He himself engraved after works of many artists,including Francesco Salviati,Daniele da Volterra, Raphael, Michelangelo, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Livio Agresti and Baccio Bandinelli.He also made copies of earlier prints.His subject matter included the devotional topographical,antiquarian,didactic and ‘popular’.
He published a number of important series: the Pontificum Romanorum Effigies of 1580 and the Romanorum Imperatorum Effigies of 1583; the Ecclesiae Anglicanae Trophea of 1584; the Antiquarum Statuarum Urbis Romae, the first book of which was first published before 1561/2.
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Giovanni Battista de’ CAVALIERI (1525-1601)
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Engraver,printer and print publisher,from Villa Lagarina near Trento.Active in Venice and from 1559 in Rome.1577 he had a bottega in Parione which he let out to a cartolaio,Girolamo Agnelli. His own house was in the vicolo di Palazzo Savelli, with a workshop next to it. He was the brother-in-law of Lorenzo Vaccari.
Made plates for Antonio Salamanca, Lafrery and Faleti.By 1560 he seems to have been publishing his own plates. He entered into partnerships for publishing: in 1567 with Perino Zecchini de Guarlottis and in 1576 with Lorenzo Vaccari .In 1577 he was employng a printer: Francesco Cornuti .He acquired old plates that he recut. He published plates by his contemporaries,including Cort.He himself engraved after works of many artists,including Cort.He himself engraved after works of many artists,including Francesco Salviati,Daniele da Volterra, Raphael, Michelangelo, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Livio Agresti and Baccio Bandinelli.He also made copies of earlier prints.His subject matter included the devotional topographical,antiquarian,didactic and ‘popular’.
He published a number of important series: the Pontificum Romanorum Effigies of 1580 and the Romanorum Imperatorum Effigies of 1583; the Ecclesiae Anglicanae Trophea of 1584; the Antiquarum Statuarum Urbis Romae, the first book of which was first published before 1561/2.
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