Sebastiaan van Noyen, Thermæ Diocletiani: ground plan and details of capitals, entablatures and bases of a reconstruction of the Baths of Diocletian in Rome, 1558.
Etching. 387 mm x 2000 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London. Photographer: prudence cuming.
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Thermæ Diocletiani: ground plan and details of capitals, entablatures and bases of a reconstruction of the Baths of Diocletian in Rome, 1558
Sebastiaan van Noyen (ca. 1493 - 1557)
RA Collection: Art
From the set of six monumental multi-sheet prints published by Hieronymus Cock in 1558, forming a series which has been recently described as 'the first illustrated monograph on a historical building ever to be published' (see Peter Fuhring's catalogue entry in Hieronymus Cock: the Renaissance in print, exh. cat., Brussels 2013 (pp. 118-123). The Royal Academy's copy is mounted on linen, being one of only three known to have survived in this form complete with Cock's letterpress description and five additional small 'cut-out' etched extensions to the prints.
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