ID: 700000793 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000793	Record Type: Movable Work

La festa di Testaccio fatta in Roma (etching (print); Du Pérac, Etienne (etcher, died1604); published 16th century; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 562436; (CMalG)1366-954; accession number: P910002** (FF. 692);)

Note: The print depicts a festival in Monte Testaccio, Rome, featuring a tournament, a bullfight and the killing of a swine taking place before crowds of onlookers. The pyramidal tomb of Gaius Cestius, aqueducts and the surrounding hills appear in the background, while exotic animals, such as a camel, are shown amidst the crowds; An inscription decorated with pontifical arms is printed on a city wall in the lower left corner: P.III. P.M. 1534 [i.e. Paulus III. Pontifex Maximus]. According to Robert-Dumesnil and Linzeler, the date should be read as 1554; Étienne Du Pérac, a French painter, engraver, etcher and architect, was active in Rome for several decades; Forms part of the Collection of festival prints, 1530-1887 (Special Collections accn. no. P910002**).. [15--]

Titles:

La festa di Testaccio fatta in Roma (preferred,C,U,RP,Italian-P,U,U)

Festival in Monte Testaccio, Rome, featuring a tournament, a bullfight, and killing a swine (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

etching (print) [300041365] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

prints (visual works) [300041273]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: published 16th century

Creator Display:

Du Pérac, Etienne (etcher, died1604) [preferred,GRISC]

printmaker Dupérac, Etienne (French architect, painter, and engraver, ca. 1525-1604) [500000071]

Locations:

Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 562436; (CMalG)1366-954; accession number: P910002** (FF. 692)

Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Display Materials: 1 print: etching

	prints (visual works) [300041273]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

	etching (printing process) [300053241]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

Dimensions: 37.5 x 52.7 cm

General Subject:

events (preferred)

games and sports

history and legend

animals

Specific Subjects:

	festivals (celebrations) [300073472]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), cultural events, celebrations) (AAT)

	bullfights [300379078]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), cultural events, entertainment events) (AAT)

	Paul III, Pope (Italian pope, 1468-1549) [500114692]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	Roma [7003138]
	.....(Lazio (region (administrative division)), Italy (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

	tournaments [300069188]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), cultural events, contests) (AAT)

	pig (genus) [300250114]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Artiodactyla (order), Suidae (family)) (AAT)

	slaughtering [300379168]
	.....(Activities Facet, Functions (hierarchy name), functions (activities), <functions by specific context>, agricultural functions) (AAT)

Inscriptions: La festa di Testaccio fatta in Roma Stefano d' Perac fecit. Inscription in lower center of image: S Stefano d' perac Fecit.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
La festa di Testaccio fatta in Roma	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 562436
Festival in Monte Testaccio, Rome, featuring a tournament, a bullfight, and killing a swine	........ [VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) note

Subject: ....... [VP,GRISC]

....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

....................... Oeschlin, W. Festarchitektur p. 44, fig. 48

Note:
English	..... [VP,GRISC]
	..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)