Italian Harbor of Ancona Painting (Copy of 16thc Vatican Map)
Entry/Object ID
HM-827.1
Tags
Needs Restoration
Description
Italian Harbor of Ancona Painting
(Early copy of 16thc painting in Vatican Museum Hall of Maps - Italian port of Ancona)
Italian Harbor scene with boats, breakwater, ocean horizon (left), town, distant hills (center & right)
oil on canvas, 55 X 56 in
Inscription on lower left: ANCON/ CIVITAS/ DORICA/ CVM PORTV/ TRAIANI.
Small inscription on horizon at left of church on a hill: VRBANUS VIII/ PONT. MAX./ DOMVM/ AD EXPVRGANDVM/ MERCES ET ADVENAS/ MORBI SVSPICIONE/ CONSTRVXIT.
Small inscription to the right of fortified building on a hill: VRBANVS VIII/ PONT. MAX./ PROPVGNACVLVM/ AD TVTELAM/ ARCISET PORTVS/ TRAIANI.
1928-07-26 letter (see attached) written by the artist Giulio Cesare GIULIANI (Viterbo 1882 – Rome 1954), refers to the map of the port of Ancona and attests that the three maps were executed by his father-in-law, Eugenio Cisterna (Genzano 1862 – 1933), a painter and decorator active throughout Europe, around 1928. (Vatican Museum)
Collection
Painting
Acquisition
Accession
827
Made/Created
Place
Location
North Italian
Notes
Date: c. 19th c.
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Painting
Nomenclature Class
Art
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
General Notes
Note Type
HM827 Italian Harbor Painting in Library, 19thc info
Note Type
Vatican Gallery of Maps - Wikipedia
Note Type
Gallery of the Maps Introduction » VoiceMap
Note Type
Vatican Museum Gallery of Geographic Maps info
Note Type
2024-10-14 email from Vatican - info on Vatican Map copies
Note Type
2025-09-23 from Vatican Museum (map date and artist info)
