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Print ID 6749
Title Germani proceres ad Augustum manus tendunt, in eius fidem, ac potestarum venientes
Location XXIV: 043
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Publication Location Rome
Publication Date 0
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Technique Etching
Text on print 42
Condition c4
Subject Index Part of the spiral sculptural frieze on the Column of Marcus Aurelius. Bellori interprets this scene as Germans turning to Marcus Aurelius for protection (but it could be the German king). Battle scene.
references A. Grelle (ed.), 'Indice delle Stampe De' Rossi', 1996, pp. 380-1.
Notes Prints bound in full leather: 'Columna Antoniniana', title-plate and 77 prints of the Column of Marcus Aurelius by Pietro Santi Bartoli. Explanatory notes in Latin by Giovanni Pietro Bellori. This edition was published by the author ('Romae apud auctorem'), and is undated. On Bartoli, see: M. Pomponi, Storia dell' Arte, 75 (1992), pp. 195-225.

 

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