Resumen de "Glorificatio historiae"-ein Frontispiz Giovanni Battista Lenardis

Dietmar Spengler

• The writer discusses a print designed by Roman painter Giovanni Battista Lenardi, an allegory of architectural history, which served as a frontispiece for two late-17th-century books by the historian Giovanni Giustino Ciampini. In the print, four female personifications of architecture and architectural history, dressed in Roman fashion, measure and paint buildings in Rome under the gaze of Historia. The writer examines the iconography of the print and also examines a preliminary drawing in the Royal Library in Windsor, England, and a drawing after the print in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne, Germany.