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)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Professor Peter Tomory, 1991
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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
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