Terms and conditions of use
Four corner-pieces showing Eros and Anteros fighting
(1674)
plate 14 from the Galeriae Farnesianae Icones series, published by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, Rome 1674
- Medium
- etching and engraving
- Measurements
- 40.1 × 44.8 cm (image) 40.6 × 45.2 cm (plate) 45.9 × 71.2 cm (sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- Rome, Italy
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Borea XLII D.18 i/i
- Edition
- only state
- Printing/Publishing
- printed and published by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, Rome
- Inscription
- printed in ink (in image) u.c.: CÆLESTIS · AC · VVLGARIS · AMORIS · IMAGINES · QVATVOR . / IN · TOTIDEM · APSIDIS · ANGVLIS · PICTÆ · A · VIBVS . / PENDEMT · ALLEGORIÆ · ET · ARGVMENTA · FABVLARVM ·
printed in ink (in image) c.l.: Laureæ coronæ immortali proposito præmio, cælestis Amor / cum vulgari Amore luctatur, lugentem erinibus trahit.
printed in ink (in image) c.r.: Supremus Amor impuram facem Vulgari Amori auellere conatur.
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: Annibal Carraccius pinx. / in Ædibus farnesianis.
printed in ink (in image) l.c.l.: Cælestis, atque humani Amoris mutuus amplexus, siue appetitus / cum ratione coniunctio, in quâ virtus consistit.
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: Io. Iacob. de Rubeis Formis Romæ ad Templ. S. Mariæ de Pace cū Priu. S. Pont.
printed in ink (in image) l.c.r.: Anteros Heroti, siue iniusto Amori palmæ ramum subtrahit.
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: Petrus Aquila delin. et sculp.
printed in ink l.r.: 14 - Accession Number
- P139-1991
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Professor Peter Tomory, 1991
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Not on display
