ECL-Bn.15:215-2014
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bn.15:215-2014
Object type
Identification
Title
Statue: Apotheosis of Claudius
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Content (description)
The bust of Claudius wearing a radiate crown is held on the back of an eagle with outspread wings. The eagle holds a thunderbolt in its claws above a mound of arms and armour topped by a globe.
Inscribed just below the base, lower right: 1657/ Gio.Batta/Galestruzzi fece.
Inscribed along the lower edge:
CONSECRATIO CLAUDII IMPERATORIS/Claudius in Deos relatus/ Insana antiquitas/ quae vel socordiam divinitate donabat/ Aquila/ infamiam rapti Ganimedis hoc modo assumpto conduplicat/ tunc foeda nunc demens// Sed admiranda artificis praestantia,/& Columnensium Principum faustitas,/qui tantum marmor in Marinensi ditione defossum possident,/ utrique dedecus in gloriam vertunt,/ Hinc paribus meritis ambo tolluntur in auras,/ Augustus Caelo dignus & illa Iove.
Inscribed just below the base, lower right: 1657/ Gio.Batta/Galestruzzi fece.
Inscribed along the lower edge:
CONSECRATIO CLAUDII IMPERATORIS/Claudius in Deos relatus/ Insana antiquitas/ quae vel socordiam divinitate donabat/ Aquila/ infamiam rapti Ganimedis hoc modo assumpto conduplicat/ tunc foeda nunc demens// Sed admiranda artificis praestantia,/& Columnensium Principum faustitas,/qui tantum marmor in Marinensi ditione defossum possident,/ utrique dedecus in gloriam vertunt,/ Hinc paribus meritis ambo tolluntur in auras,/ Augustus Caelo dignus & illa Iove.
Content (object)
statue
Dimensions
height (actual size): 379mm
width (actual size): 232mm
width (actual size): 232mm
Inscription
See Description:
Inscribed just below the base, lower right: 1657/ Gio.Batta/Galestruzzi fece.
Inscribed along the lower edge:
CONSECRATIO CLAUDII IMPERATORIS/Claudius in Deos relatus/ Insana antiquitas/ quae vel socordiam divinitate donabat/ Aquila/ infamiam rapti Ganimedis hoc modo assumpto conduplicat/ tunc foeda nunc demens// Sed admiranda artificis praestantia,/& Columnensium Principum faustitas,/qui tantum marmor in Marinensi ditione defossum possident,/ utrique dedecus in gloriam vertunt,/ Hinc paribus meritis ambo tolluntur in auras,/ Augustus Caelo dignus & illa Iove.
Inscribed just below the base, lower right: 1657/ Gio.Batta/Galestruzzi fece.
Inscribed along the lower edge:
CONSECRATIO CLAUDII IMPERATORIS/Claudius in Deos relatus/ Insana antiquitas/ quae vel socordiam divinitate donabat/ Aquila/ infamiam rapti Ganimedis hoc modo assumpto conduplicat/ tunc foeda nunc demens// Sed admiranda artificis praestantia,/& Columnensium Principum faustitas,/qui tantum marmor in Marinensi ditione defossum possident,/ utrique dedecus in gloriam vertunt,/ Hinc paribus meritis ambo tolluntur in auras,/ Augustus Caelo dignus & illa Iove.
Materials & techniques note
copper engraving on paper
Production
Person
Galestruzzi, Giovanni Battista, 1618 - 1661 (Engraver)
Date
1657
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Blanco (Blanco no. 225E The trophy is now in the Prado, the bust is now lost)
• Bernoulli (II. 1. 337 no. 29)
• Bernoulli (II. 1. 337 no. 29)