Title(s)

Slag bij de Milvische brug (rechter blad)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-38.937

Catalogue reference

• LeBlanc 86
• Nagler/Meyer 39

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

Gevechtsscène in een landschap: slag bij de Milvische brug. De soldaten van Constantijn in gevecht met de soldaten van Maxentius. Dode lichamen liggen op de grond. Soldaten te paard verdrinken in de rivier.

Artist

• print maker: Pietro Aquila
• after drawing by: Pietro Aquila
• after painting by: Giulio Romano
• after design by: Rafaël
• publisher: Giovanni Giacomo de'Rossi (mentioned on object)
• Innocentius XI (mentioned on object)

Place

print maker: Italy
after drawing by: Italy
after painting by: Vaticaanstad
after design by: Italy
publisher: Rome
Vaticaanstad

Dating

1683

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 695 mm × width 431 mm

What

• the battle of the Milvian bridge (Saxa Rubra): St. Constantine on horseback confronts Maxentius; a cross appears in the sky with in fiery letters 'in hoc signo vinces' (the raised standards of the Roman soldiers carry a cross or the chi-rho monogram)
• the soldier; the soldier's life
• warfare; military affairs (+ cavalry, horsemen)

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Slag bij de Milvische brug (RP-P-OB-207.651)

• Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon, dl. 2, p. 204, cat.nr. 39
• Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant un dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations : ouvrage destiné à faire suite au Manuel du libraire par J.Ch. Brunet, dl. 1, p. 54, cat.nr. 86