Solomon and the Temple of Jerusalem - Engraving by Pietro Aquila - 1674
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Original copper engraving with the masons dressing the great blocks for the foundations of the temple while, beyond, King Solomon directs the work. The Latin caption quotes the third book of Kings: Praecepit rex Salomon, ut tollerent lapides grandes, lapides preciosos in fundamentum templi.
Original copper engraving with the masons dressing the great blocks for the foundations of the temple while, beyond, King Solomon directs the work. The Latin caption quotes the third book of Kings: Praecepit rex Salomon, ut tollerent lapides grandes, lapides preciosos in fundamentum templi.
It reproduces one of the frescoes of Raphael's Loggias in the Vatican - the Raphael Bible - engraved by Pietro Aquila for the Imagines Veteris ac Novi Testamenti published in Rome by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi in 1674.
Medium: Etching and engraving.
Artist / after: After Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520).
Engraver: Pietro Aquila (c. 1650-1692).
Date: 1674.
Source: Imagines Veteris ac Novi Testamenti, Gio. Giacomo de Rossi, Rome, 1674; print No. 43.
Dimensions: Sheet 18.9 x 14.6 in (48 x 37 cm).
Condition: The image within the plate mark clean; the paper of the margins is toned and shows several losses and holes in the left margin and tears with loss at the upper edge, always outside the image.
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Original copper engraving with the masons dressing the great blocks for the foundations of the temple while, beyond, King Solomon directs the work. The Latin caption quotes the third book of Kings: Praecepit rex Salomon, ut tollerent lapides grandes, lapides preciosos in fundamentum templi.