Pietro Santi Bartoli Engraving Victoria Dacica Arch of Constantine Rome Framed

Copper engraving by Pietro Santi Bartoli (c.1635-1700) of the 'Victoria Dacica' relief on the Arch of Constantine in Rome, part of the great frieze of Trajan's Dacian victories reused on the arch. The emperor returns in triumph to the city, attended by Roma and crowned with laurel by Victory, while his cavalry rides down the defeated Dacians.

Lettered 'Victoria Dacica' with the Latin caption 'Optimus princeps victor in urbem redit comitantibus Roma et Victoria quae capiti eius lauream imponit', 'Petrus Sanct. Bartol. del. et sculp.' lower left, 'In Arcu Constantini' and the papal privilege lower right, and plate number 13. From one of Bartoli's folios of Roman relief sculpture published in Rome by the de Rossi press from 1690.

Condition: a tear and small loss to the lower left margin, outside the image; plate mark visible; light toning. Mounted in a silvered frame, approx. 55.9 x 38.0 cm.

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