3905A

Cielo de Mercurio (The Assumption)

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