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Quadrangular Bricks Sectioned Diagonally to Form Triangular Bricks… (Mattoni quadrati, segati a linee diagonali per formare i Mattoni triangolari…)

18th century
18th century
295 x 232 mm (11.6 x 9.1 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 290; Petrucci (1953) 117; Wilton-Ely 425 and p. 477 with remark: “A structural study of the entrance to the crematorium.”

Credit Line: Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892)

Accession Number: Retrospective TBD

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architecture*, Italy*, Rome*, sections*

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)
sections - Orthographic drawings of a building, object, or site as if cut through and exposed at one specific plane. [April 1992 descriptor moved.]

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plate Dimensions: 295 x 232 mm (11.6 x 9.1 in.)

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, (1720–1778) . Quadrangular Bricks Sectioned Diagonally to Form Triangular Bricks… (Mattoni quadrati, segati a linee diagonali per formare i Mattoni triangolari…), 18th century. From Roman Antiquities (Le Antichità Romane). Etching. plate : 295 x 232 mm (11.6 x 9.1 in.). DAC accession number Retrospective TBD. Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892).

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