TEMPLI IOVIS STATORIS… Views of Rome [Set title]

Beschrijving

30th plate of 100 portraying Rome’s palaces and ruins and even reconstruction of ancient buildings in Rome. The second state of these etchings were collected in the publication by Peter Schenck:’Roma aeterna, sive ipsius aedificiorum Romanorum, integrorium collapsorumque, conspectus duplex. ‘ In the ‘Aedificiorum Index’:’30. Campus Vaccinus, & templorum / in eo ruinae’: view on the so called ‘Campo Vaccino’, a portion of the Roman fora used as bovine market from the XVI until the XVIII century. In particular are mentioned the ruines of the temple of Jupiter Sartor from the 8th century BC. Inspired to Etienne Duperac’s plate 7 of ‘I Vestigi dell’ antichità di Roma…’ (1575). Inscribed on the bottom in Latin and Dutch:’TEMPLI IOVIS STATORIS… / Pet Schenck exc: Amsteloed: cum Privil:’