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View of the Flavian Amphitheater, Called the Colosseum (Veduta dell’ Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo)


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View of the Flavian Amphitheater, Called the Colosseum (Veduta dell’ Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo)

18th century
18th century
125 x 268 mm (4.9 x 10.6 in.)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, (1720–1778)

Object Type: print
Medium and Support: Etching
Series: from Roman Antiquities (Le Antichità Romane)
Marks: Signed in plate, lower right
Bibliography: Focillon 215; Petrucci (1953) 37, fig. 1; Wilton-Ely 350.
Credit Line: Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892)
Accession Number: Retrospective TBD

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This object has the following keywords:
  • 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)

Dimensions
  • plate Dimensions: 125 x 268 mm (4.9 x 10.6 in.)

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