Description
- Abstract:
- 1773 impression of 1623 engraving by and after Villamoena, published by Carlo Losi; full-length portrait of the Swiss Guardsman, Giovanni Alto, in military costume standing in Piazza del Quirinale, where numerous soldiers etc. are moving about, view of Rome in background.
- Notes:
- Large oblong folio, matted; pl. mark, margins trimmed; clean.
- Inscribed at base of altar on lower left: PHOEBO ET MUSIS/S/ OPUS F. VILLAMOENAE
- Inscribed at bottom lower right: Romæ apud Carolum Losi Anno 1773
- Inscribed at lower center: Illustriss. Equiti Cassiano Puteo
- Inscribed at lower center: Virtutum, & vetusti generis claritas, quibus præsulges; uir ILLme omnium animos rapiunt in tui amorem & obsequia. Patere igitur extare constantis hoc in te meæ voluntatis argumentum, quod palam exhibeo; dum Ioannem Altum, militem prætorianem, romanarum antiquitatum indagatorem, monstratoremque meo cælo expressum ad te mitto, tamquam ad præclarum decus aulæ principis, inter urbis æternæ decora suspiciendum. Exiguum grati erga te, ob innumera in me collata beneficia, pignus animi, ea liberalitate metire, qua bonarum artium studia colis, & foues; meque perpetua benignitate complectere. Vale. Romæ. Kal. Novemb. Anni Salutaris MDCXXIII. Franciscus Villamoena/ Superiorum permissu
Citation
Villamena, Francesco,
"Portrait of Giovanni Alto on the Piazza del Quirinale"
(1773).
The Theater that was Rome.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:254153/
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The Theater that was Rome
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