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One of the Two Identical Dadoes Made in the Form of a Pedestal Now in the Capitoline Museum, Found at the Time of Alexander VII in the Excavations Which Are Still Being Carried out around the Pyramid [The Pyramid of Cestius] (Uno delli… [see full title])

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One of the Two Identical Dadoes Made in the Form of a Pedestal Now in the Capitoline Museum, Found at the Time of Alexander VII in the Excavations Which Are Still Being Carried out around the Pyramid [The Pyramid of Cestius] (Uno delli… [see full title])

18th century
18th century
505 x 393 mm (19.9 x 15.5 in.)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, (1720–1778)

Object Type: print

Medium and Support: Etching

Series: from Roman Antiquities (Le Antichità Romane)

Edition: TOM. 3

Marks: Signed in plate, lower right

Bibliography: Focillon 324; Petrucci (1953) 155; Wilton-Ely 457.

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

Accession Number: Retrospective TBD

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architecture*, Italy*, Rome*

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)

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plate Dimensions: 505 x 393 mm (19.9 x 15.5 in.)

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, (1720–1778) . One of the Two Identical Dadoes Made in the Form of a Pedestal Now in the Capitoline Museum, Found at the Time of Alexander VII in the Excavations Which Are Still Being Carried out around the Pyramid [The Pyramid of Cestius] (Uno delli due Dadi fatti a guisa di Piedestallo in tutto simili, i quali esistono nel Museo Capitolino…), 18th century. From Roman Antiquities (Le Antichità Romane). Etching. plate : 505 x 393 mm (19.9 x 15.5 in.). DAC accession number Retrospective TBD. Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892).

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