id: 103950 accession number: 1922.143 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1922.143 updated: Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, 1548. Nicolas Beatrizet (French, active Italy, 1507 or 1515-about 1565). Engraving; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1922.143 title: Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1548 creation date earliest: 1548 creation date latest: 1548 current location: creditline: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland copyright: --- culture: France, worked in Rome, 16th century technique: engraving department: Prints collection: PR - Engraving type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Nicolas Beatrizet (French, active Italy, 1507 or 1515-about 1565) - artist --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Lessons of the Academy opening date: 1983-02-08T05:00:00 The Lessons of the Academy. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 8-May 29, 1983). title: Gods and Heroes: Ancient Legends in Renaissance Art opening date: 2017-08-26T04:00:00 Gods and Heroes: Ancient Legends in Renaissance Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 26-December 31, 2017). title: Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance opening date: 2019-10-13T04:00:00 Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 2019-February 23, 2020). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: When Michelangelo redesigned the Campidoglio, a civic piazza on top of Capitoline Hill in Rome, he repositioned the ancient Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius in the center of the piazza on a newly designed plinth with antique-style lettering. Just after the piazza was completed, Nicolas Beatrizet made this engraving of the statue and plinth as part of a series of prints of Roman monuments, which were often purchased by travelers to Rome. Michelangelo was uncredited in such images, but his impact on civic design gradually became part of the collective visual memory of Rome. wall description: Beatrizet created this engraving as part of a project recording the artworks and architecture of Rome. Conceived by the publishers Antonio Salamanca and Antonio Lafreri, the prints came to be known as the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae, or Mirror of Roman Magnificence. Tourists and collectors could buy the prints individually or purchase them in larger groups and bind them into an album. Preserved in Rome throughout the Middle Ages, this ancient statue of emperor Marcus Aurelius was moved in 1538 to the Capitoline Hill, where it became a central feature of a new piazza designed by Michelangelo. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1922.143/1922.143_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1922.143/1922.143_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1922.143/1922.143_full.tif