Half of an Arch [Porta Antonae] from the series 'Ruinarum variarum fabricarum delineationes pictoribus caeterisque id genus artificibus multum utiles'
![Half of an Arch [Porta Antonae] from the series 'Ruinarum variarum fabricarum delineationes pictoribus caeterisque id genus artificibus multum utiles' by Monogrammist G.A. & the Caltrop|Lambert Suavius|Gerard de Jode](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/dp/thumb/half-of-an-arch-porta-antonae-from-the-series-408627.webp)
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 5 11/16 × 3 7/16 in. (14.4 × 8.7 cm)
Classification
Books|Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1948
Accession Number
48.13.4(68a)
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About this artwork
This engraving presents a perspectival reconstruction of half of a triumphal arch identified as Porta Antonae, created around 1530-1550 and formerly attributed to the Monogrammist G.A. & the Caltrop. The print formed part of the series "Ruinarum variarum fabricarum delineationes pictoribus caeterisque id genus artificibus multum utiles" (Depictions of Various Ruined Buildings, Very Useful to Painters and Other Artists of this Kind), published by Gerard de Jode in 1554 with engravings by Lambert ...
About the Artist
Monogrammist G.A. & the Caltrop|Lambert Suavius|Gerard de Jode · 1535–1535
**Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop**, an enigmatic Italian engraver active in Rome during the 1530s and 1540s, remains one of the shadowy figures of the Renaissance print world. Identified solely by his monogram "G.A." accompanied by a distinctive caltrop symbol—a spiked iron ball used in warfare—little is known of his personal life or training. His early years are not well documented, and no te...