Apotheosis of Claudius
1693. Etching on paper.Not on display
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02-06-2026
Pietro Santi Bartoli
Perugia (Italy), 1635 - Rome (Italy), 1700
See author's fileNot on display
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- Taille douce: etching and engraving on laid paper, 1719
- Benoit Audran - Engraver
- Nicolas de Largillière - Dibujante
- Inventory number
- G003072
- Author
- Pietro Santi Bartoli -Engraver and drawer-
- Title
- Apotheosis of Claudius
- Date
- 1693
- Technique
- Etching
- Support
- Paper
- Dimension
- Height: 345 mm; Width: 245 mm
- Series
- Pietro Santi Bartoli, Admiranda romanarum antiquitatum ac veteris sculpturae vestigia anaglyphico opere elaborata..., Romae: sumptibus ac typis J. J. de Rubaeis, 1693, n. 80
- Provenance
- Donated by Pedro Alberdi Buruaga, 2006
- Entry date
- 2006
Bibliography +
Schröder, Stephan F., 'La llamada Apoteosis de Claudio. Monumento funerario del general augusteo M. Valerius Mesalla Corvinus', en: La Apoteosis de Claudio. Un monumento funerario de la época de Augusto y su fortuna moderna, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2002, pp. 11-27 [14 fg.3].
Museo Nacional del Prado, Memoria de Actividades 2006, Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid, 2007, pp. 88.
García López, David, La Apoteosis de Claudio y su pedestal moderno: la celebración imperial de los Habsburgo hispanos, Boletín del Museo del Prado, XXVIII, 2010, pp. 60-73.
García López, David, 'A Royal gift which 'ha fatto gran rumore per la corte': The Apotheosis of Claudius a Philip Iv of Spain's glory' En:, L'Arte del Dono. Scambi artistici e diplomazia tra Italia e Spagna, 1550-1650. Studi della Biblioteca Hertziana 8. Jornata di studi 14-15 enero 2008, Milan, 2013, pp. 223-237 [227 f.4].
Other inventories +
Inv. Nuevas Adquisiciones (iniciado en 1856). Núm. 2757.
Inscriptions +
IMPERATORIS CLAVDII APOTHEOSIS SIVE CONSECRATIO // CLAVDIVS post mortem Veterum superstitione, inter Diuos relatus, radiata corona, ac aegide insignis, Ionique consociatus in celum / fertur ab Aquila cum fulmine, et globo, noui numinis prouidentie in Orbem Romanum iudice, subiectis noualibus Britanniae / spolijs, ac tropheis. Sic Nero medicatis boletis Claudium socordem Principem Deum fecit, qui Britannico filio posthabito priuignum / ad imperium adoptauit. Marmor apud ueteres Bonillas in Marinensi Columnensium Principum ditione effossum, atq. admiranda artis / elegantia sculptum, Neronem ipsum auctorem probat, translatum uero in Hispaniam Hieronymus Card. Columna Philippo IV acceptu obtulit. // In Aedibus Principis Comartabilis (...) Matriti in Reggis (...)´
Lettered in the plate.
Front
Visor 360
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