Description: View of the Arch of Portugal located in Ruë du Cours in Rome. Graue by Israel Silvestre. Oh dear, the King. H: 115 W: 196 Faucheux: 5.3 / Baré: N° 840 This image is part of the suite SILVESTRE ISRAEL (NANCY, 1621 PARIS, 1691). copper engraving plate size 165x100 mm The landscape etching is the third in a series of 12 plates by Silvestre focusing on Rome and its surroundings called "Vues d'Italie", published by Mariette although without its excudit. Inside, Silvestre depicts the Arch of Portugal, which once stood on the Rue de Cours in Rome. The arch was flanked on each side by a pair of Corinthian columns and featured a frieze with a decorative panel in relief of horizontal curled acanthus leaves. Silvestre depicts the arch from the north, as the other side is said to have been unadorned. The etching exemplifies Silvestre's style of depicting the living city within his prints of famous buildings, as the scene he depicts is brought to life by merchants and passers-by. The period saw the street become fashionable for new and renovated churches along with palaces for the nobility. The Arch of Portugal was originally called Arcus Hadriani because of the two Hadrianic reliefs that adorned the structure, or Arch of San Lorenzo in Lucina, after the main church of the neighborhood which was located in a nearby square. Because it was adjacent to the residence of the Portuguese ambassador in the 16th century, the arch became known as the Arch of Portugal. With Pope Alexander VII's efforts to widen the street to allow horse racing along the Via del Corso in 1662, the arch was demolished.The landscape etching is the third in a series of 12 plates by Silvestre focusing on Rome and its surroundings called "Vues d'Italie", published by Mariette although without its excudit. Inside, Silvestre depicts the Arch of Portugal, which once stood on the Rue de Cours in Rome. The arch was flanked on each side by a pair of Corinthian columns and featured a frieze with a decorative panel in relief of horizontal curled acanthus leaves. Silvestre depicts the arch from the north, as the other side is said to have been unadorned. The etching exemplifies Silvestre's style of depicting the living city within his prints of famous buildings, as the scene he depicts is brought to life by merchants and passers-by. The period saw the street become fashionable for new and renovated churches along wi
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