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Section of the Tomb of Alexander Severus (Spaccato del Sepolcro di Alessandro Severo)


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Section of the Tomb of Alexander Severus (Spaccato del Sepolcro di Alessandro Severo)

18th century
18th century
345 x 460 mm (13.6 x 18.1 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 254; Petrucci (1953) 81; Wilton-Ely 389.
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.]
  • death
  • graves - Excavations in the earth used for burial; for constructions raised over or around burial sites, use "tombs." [April 1993 related term added.]
  • Italy - TGN 1000080
  • Rome - TGN 7000874 (standard English name used here for this well-known city)
  • sections - Orthographic drawings of a building, object, or site as if cut through and exposed at one specific plane. [April 1992 descriptor moved.]

Dimensions
  • plate Dimensions: 345 x 460 mm (13.6 x 18.1 in.)

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