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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M24967.84
People
Giacomo Lauro, Italian (Rome active Rome, 1584 - 1637)
Title
The Naumachia of Domitian
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Naumachia Domitiani
Series/Book Title: Antiquae Urbis Splendor
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1641
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/176112

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 17.9 x 23.2 cm (7 1/16 x 9 1/8 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
1641
Standard Reference Number
LeBlanc 2

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Max Falk
Accession Year
2001
Object Number
M24967.84
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
A naumachia was a simulated naval combat in a flooded arena.

Publication History

  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Francesco Buccella, Sonia Couturier, Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, Melissa Hyde, Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Isabelle Mayer-Michalon, and Xavier Salmon, Tradition & Transitions: Eighteenth-Century French Art from The Horvitz Collection, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., The Horvitz Collection (2017), pp. 174, 508-n.4

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