Pietro Aquila
Pietro Aquila is represented in this archive by a single etching, a frontispiece built around an oval portrait of Raphael, where three allegorical figures of the Arts support the tablet at the centre. The composition belongs to the print culture of the later seventeenth century, when reproductive etching carried celebrated paintings and artists' likenesses into wider circulation, and its subject matter is openly celebratory rather than narrative. Surviving impressions of the sheet are dated to 1675, so the collection's holding reflects that year, with later printings possible within the same date given by the Met.
1 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
