• Antoine Lafréry (publisher)
• Nicolas Beatrizet (engraver (printmaker))
• Pope Urban VIII (patron)
• Pope Sixtus III (patron)
• Constantine I, Emperor of Rome (patron)

Sectional perspective of the baptistery of San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome

printed before 1570

• record drawing

Engraving with etching on laid paper

sheet: 40.4 x 49.8 cm (15 7/8 x 19 5/8 in.)

DR1979:0254

• line drawing

• sectional perspective

• general view
• interior view

- Sheet is trimmed within plate mark and has an old vertical fold through c.

inscribed - by the engraver ? in the plate below the image, b.: "Balnei Laterani, & in eo, ad curandam Constant. Caes. Elephantiasim, in= / noxio infantium sanguini suscipiendo primum parati Labri, ac mox conver / sa in pietatem crudelitate, eius dem baptismo destinati, simulacrum. Romae. / ANT. LAFRERI. EXC." numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, u.r.: "11" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, in various loactions: "11"

• architecture