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Cristobal Lozano presents to Pope Alexander VII an engraving of a mountain transformed into a statue of a man

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Cristobal Lozano presents to Pope Alexander VII an engraving of a mountain transformed into a statue of a man. Engraving by F Spierre after Pietro da Cortona. A man next to Lozano points to a mountain transformed into a statue of Alexander the Great. He appears not to be a self-portrait of Pietro da Cortona; he seems to represent the ancient architect Dinocrates of Rhodes, who according to Vitruvius proposed to Alexander "to transform Mount Athos into the statue of a man holding a spacious city in his left hand, and in his right a huge cup, into which shall be collected all the streams of the mountain, which shall then be poured into the sea" (De architectura, lib. II, introduction). Created 1666. Alexander VII, Pope (1599–1667). Cristóbal Lozano (1609–1667). Dinocrates, of Rhodes, active 4th century BC Alexander, the Great, 356 BC-323 BC Contributors: Pietro, da Cortona (1597–1669). Work ID: gzeysk6c.

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