• Unknown Northern European Artist, active early 16th century (engraver (printmaker))

Design for a triumphal arch

early 1530s

Triumphal arch flanked by two pairs of fluted Doric columns that have capitals ornamented with grotesques. The arch leads to a coffered barrel vault and grotesques covering both sides of the interior walls. The entablature is also Doric, with metopes featuring bovine skulls and alternating circular ornaments. In the attic story is a quadrilateral cartouche with a Latin inscription that reads “MVLTA RENAS CENTVR QVE NVNCCECIDERE.” On either side of the cartouche are arabesques with anthropomorphic feet and vases/urns that are also decorated with grotesque ornamentation. Above is a series of three scalloped niches. The central niche uses a highly ornamental Corinthian order below a triangular pediment.

• pattern drawing
• theoretical drawing

Etching on laid paper

sheet: 25 x 18.1 cm (9 13/16 x 7 1/8 in.)

DR1990:0046

• line drawing

• perspective drawing

- The sheet has been trimmed within the plate mark.

Recto - printed: MVLTA RENAS / CENTVR QVE / NVNCCECIDERE Verso - in graphite: 41

• architecture

• triumphal arch
• archway