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Image: Imaginary Ancient Temple Designed in the Style of Those Built in Honor of the Goddess Vesta… (Tempio antico inventato e disegnato alla maniera di quelli che si fabbricavano in ornore della Dea Vesta…)

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Imaginary Ancient Temple Designed in the Style of Those Built in Honor of the Goddess Vesta… (Tempio antico inventato e disegnato alla maniera di quelli che si fabbricavano in ornore della Dea Vesta…)

1743
18th century
402 x 255 mm (15.8 x 10 in.)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, (1720–1778)

Object Type: print
Medium and Support: Etching on laid paper
Series: from Part One of Architecture and Perspectives… (Prima Parte di Architettura e Prospettive inventate ed incise da Giambattista Piranesi Architteto Veneziano fra gli Arcadi Salcindio Tiseio)
Edition: First Paris edition, 1800–1807; loose sheet, not bound in volume; Focillon 17 is not included in the original (1743) edition of "Prima Parte…," but is included as part of the Prima Parte group in Opera Opere Varie (1750) and later editions.
Marks: Signed in plate, lower left: “Gio Batta Piranesi Arch. o inv/ ed incise in Roma l’Anno 1743”; inscribed, lower right: numeral “15”
Bibliography: Focillon 17; Hind (1922), p. 78 ff.; Wilton-Ely 17.
Credit Line: Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), before 1953
Accession Number: 1973.D1.38.24

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architecture*, Italy*, Rome*, temples*
  • architecture - Art or science of designing and building structures, especially habitable structures, in accordance with principles determined by aesthetic and practical or material considerations. Refers also to the structures created. [November 1994 related term added. October 1990 alternate term added.]
  • Italy - TGN 1000080
  • Rome - TGN 7000874 (standard English name used here for this well-known city)
  • temples - Use for religious buildings dedicated to the service of a deity or deities, often housing a cult image; do not use for such Christian or Islamic religious buildings, prefer "churches" or "mosques." May also be used for Protestant places of worship in France and some French-speaking regions. [February 1995 scope note added.]

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  • plate Dimensions: 402 x 255 mm (15.8 x 10 in.)

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