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Cielo de Mercurio (The Assumption)

Cielo de Mercurio (The Assumption)

3905A
Artist
Gregorio Fosman (or Forstman) y Medina (active 1653-1713)
Title
Cielo de Mercurio (The Assumption)
Date
17th or 18th century
Medium
One of ten engraved copperplates, subsequently gilded ¿after being used to print illustrations to a Lima edition of Juan de Alloza y Menacho S.J. (1597-1666) Cielo Estrellado […] de María? The work of Alloza y Menacho is known in a Madrid edition of 1655 and a Valencia edition of 1691, the latter by the Macé press. The ten plates correspond to the ten regions of Dante's Paradiso: the seven heavens corresponding to the movable stars (Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn), the cristaline heaven of the fixed stars (the Firmament), the heaven of the Primum Mobile, and the Empyrean or Abode of God.
Photo Source
Museo Pedro de Osma, Lima, Peru.
Item
3905A
Correspondences
Archive: 3905A/3905B
Archive: 3905A/3905B
Archive: 3905A/3905B