Italy - Rome; Juan de Jáuregui y Aguilar - I sette angeli versano le coppe dell'ira divina su Roma - 1601-1620

This copper-engraved print on seventeenth-century watermarked paper (1618), taken from the series of the twenty-four plates beyond the text of Vestigatio arcani sensus in Apocalypsi by the Spanish Jesuit Luis del Alcázar (printed in Lyons by Antoine Pillehotte), depicts the seven angels pouring the cups of divine wrath over Rome according to chapter XVI of the Apocalypse. The composition, conceived by the Sevillian painter and poet Juan de Jáuregui y Aguilar (1583–1641) for the first edition of 1614 and here re-engraved on copper by a Lyonese master active in the seventeenth century, shows in the upper band seven angels among the clouds in the act of overturning the cups of divine judgment on the city beneath. In the lower part opens a detailed bird’s-eye view of ancient and pagan Rome, identified by Alcázar with the apocalyptic “great Babylon,” enclosed by the Aurelian Walls and perfectly recognizable thanks to its symbolic monuments such as the Colosseum, the Pantheon, the Trajan and Antonine columns, the Circus Maximus, Castel Sant’Angelo along the Tiber with the Tiber Island and the Pyramid of Cestius in the foreground on the left.

Dimensions 28 x 16 cm
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