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Friday, July 13, 2012

SPECVLVM ROMANAE MAGNIFICENTIAE -- Antonio Lafreri

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Stampe di Roma e di antichità romane



Lo Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae è un’interessante collezione di stampe di Roma e di antichità romane, il cui nucleo centrale è costituito dalle stampe pubblicate da Antonio Lafreri intorno al 1575.

La collezione qui digitalizzata attinge alla copia dello Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae posseduta dalla biblioteca dell’Università di Chicago che contiene al suo interno circa 1.000 stampe.

In 1540 Antonio Lafreri began publishing maps and other printed images that depicted major monuments and antiquities in Rome.

These images were calculated to appeal to the taste for classical antiquity that fueled the cultural event we call the Renaissance.

After Lafreri published a title page in the mid-1570s, collections of these prints came to be known as the

"Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae".

Grand Tourists and other collectors who bought prints from Lafreri made their own selections and had them individually bound.

Over time, Lafreri’s title page served as starting point for large and eclectic compilations, expanded and rearranged by generations of collectors.

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