Sadeler - Circus Maximus from the 17th century

"Traces of Circus Maximus, which was nicknamed for its size, as it was larger than others located in Rome, and the mentioned Circus was not ordered otherwise than to celebrate various ways of games and hunts. People could sit to watch these games, as shown by sign A in sign B, there was a prison of sign C through the underground, a broken obelisk that was in the middle of the mentioned circus D, and part of the laqua crabra, which today serves to water the garden that leads E and Mount Aventino F the Mount Palatine." View taken from the cycle "Traces of Ancient Rome Tivoli Pozzuolo and other places," which Sadeler engraves, taking them from the series of the Frenchman Stefano Du Pérac, using the technique of etching and burin and in a reduced format on evenly laid paper. The work consists of 50 plates published by Marco Sadeler in 1606 in Prague, a very active cultural center, under the same title "Traces of Ancient Rome" and with the same descriptions by Du Pérac in Italian, without mentioning the inventor. Sadeler, the court engraver of Rudolf II, traveled to Germany and Italy, staying in Rome in 1593. However, his works also include views "... Tivoli, Pozzuolo et other luochi," which are missing in this thirteen new tables), in which the naturalistic aspect is emphasized. In ideal condition, with wide margins, in a walnut binding. 

It is one of the most important iconographic repertoires for avid travelers during the Grand Tour. 

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