Pirro Ligorio - Ambrogio Brambilla - Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Ornithon Sive Aviarum
Summary
The Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae is a collection of engravings of Rome and Roman antiquities, the core of which consists of prints published by Antonio Lafreri and gathered under a title page he printed in the mid-1570's. Copies of the Speculum vary greatly in the number of prints, and individual prints were reissued and changed over time.
Printmaking in woodcut and engraving came to Northern Italy within a few decades of their invention north of the Alps. Engraving probably came first to Florence in the 1440s, the goldsmith Maso Finiguerra (1426–64) used the technique. Italian engraving caught the very early Renaissance, 1460–1490. Print copying was a widely accepted practice, as well as copying of paintings viewed as images in their own right.
- Ligorio Varro's Aviary - Altea Gallery
- Aviario di Marco Terenzio Varrone a Cassino - Antiquarius
- Rome and Its Ruins - Tensions in Renaissance Cities
- Piero (after) Ligorio - in our art prints. - MeisterDrucke
- Search the Collection - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Ornithon Sive Aviarum, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"
- In search of a setting for learning in Roman antiquity - TUZ.KG