Serenissimo Principi Leopoldo Medices

Artist BARTOLI, Pietro Santo, 1635-1700

Mediumengraving

ClassificationsVisual Works

Credit LineMuseum collection

Object number1975.57 LA

DescriptionHeraldic-type image, perhaps a frontispiece (?) (see 1975-52LA) on blank, dark background; male figures, part tree part human, at each edge of image whose arms turn into branches bending toward center and intertwining with scrolls which loop under a crest; crest has crossed keys and a miter above, six balls on the shield itself; two lions with one paw upraised, on either side of center, sitting on top of rectangle filled with lettering: "Sereniss. mo Prinicipi Leopoldo Medices. Leonis X admirande virtutis Imagines ab Hetrurie legatione ad Pontificatum a Raphaele Urbinate, ad vivum et ad miraculum expressas, in Auleus Vaticanus, textili monocromate elaboratas tibi dico, Sereniss. me Princeps, meis typis adumbratas; ut quae veteres Gentis tuae sunt Imaginos, et monumenta gloriosisimi Pontificis, divinitus ad rerum culmen evecti, novo Nominis tui fulgore in lucem publicam eniteant Jo: Jacobus de Rubeis. Petrus Sanctes Bartolus ex finibus Auleorum Leonis X stylo obsequente delineavit a qua incidit Romae Io: Iacobi de Rubeis formis Romae ad Templ: Pacis cum Privil. Sum. Pont.

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