Etienne Duperac. Étienne Dupérac was a French architect, painter, engraver, and garden designer.
He is most well known for his topographical studies of Rome and its ruins in the late 16th century. Dupérac was born in Bordeaux or Paris and arrived in Rome in 1550, where he became a skilled designer and engraver.
He published a bird's-eye view of Ancient Rome with buildings reconstructed and one of modern Rome and a book of forty engravings of Roman monuments and antiquities, I vestigi dell'antichità di Roma. An unpublished book of drawings on parchment of ruins of Rome confronted with reconstructions of their original appearance, from the same angle, Disegni de le Ruine di Roma e Come Anticamente Erono, attributed to him and dated c. was published in facsimile with an introduction by Rudolf Wittkower, who dated them on the basis of the actual state of the buildings shown; the text that must have accompanied the drawings has not survived, and Dupérac's authorship has been called into question.
The book is part of the collection of the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. Dupérac's engravings of modern Rome, such as the carrousel in the Cortile del Belvedere or his bird's-eye view of the Villa d'Este, served to transmit architectural and gardening ideas to France and the north of Europe.
Dupérac worked for a time for Antonio Lafreri. On his return to France by 1578, Dupérac was commissioned to pai
He is most well known for his topographical studies of Rome and its ruins in the late 16th century. Dupérac was born in Bordeaux or Paris and arrived in Rome in 1550, where he became a skilled designer and engraver.
He published a bird's-eye view of Ancient Rome with buildings reconstructed and one of modern Rome and a book of forty engravings of Roman monuments and antiquities, I vestigi dell'antichità di Roma. An unpublished book of drawings on parchment of ruins of Rome confronted with reconstructions of their original appearance, from the same angle, Disegni de le Ruine di Roma e Come Anticamente Erono, attributed to him and dated c. was published in facsimile with an introduction by Rudolf Wittkower, who dated them on the basis of the actual state of the buildings shown; the text that must have accompanied the drawings has not survived, and Dupérac's authorship has been called into question.
The book is part of the collection of the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. Dupérac's engravings of modern Rome, such as the carrousel in the Cortile del Belvedere or his bird's-eye view of the Villa d'Este, served to transmit architectural and gardening ideas to France and the north of Europe.
Dupérac worked for a time for Antonio Lafreri. On his return to France by 1578, Dupérac was commissioned to pai
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