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View of the Remains of a Magnificent Sepulchral Building and Its Ruins near the Torre de’ Sciavi about a Mile and a Half from Porta Maggiore (Veduta degli Avanzi di Fabbrica magnifica sepolcrale co’sue Rovine… [see full title])


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View of the Remains of a Magnificent Sepulchral Building and Its Ruins near the Torre de’ Sciavi about a Mile and a Half from Porta Maggiore (Veduta degli Avanzi di Fabbrica magnifica sepolcrale co’sue Rovine… [see full title])

18th century
18th century
470 x 525 mm (18.5 x 20.7 in.)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, (1720–1778)

Object Type: print
Medium and Support: Etching
Series: from Roman Antiquities (Le Antichità Romane)
Edition: TOM. 2
Marks: Signed in plate, lower right
Bibliography: Focillon 282; Petrucci (1953) 109; Wilton-Ely 417.
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)
  • ruins - Use generally for remains of buildings or groups of buildings that have been destroyed or are in a state of great disrepair or decay.

Dimensions
  • plate Dimensions: 470 x 525 mm (18.5 x 20.7 in.)

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