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Metallic-Colored Vase Painted on the Plaster of the Wall… [Pyramid of Cestius] (Vaso di color di metallo dipinto sopra l’intonicatura negli scompartim. delle pareti…)


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Metallic-Colored Vase Painted on the Plaster of the Wall… [Pyramid of Cestius] (Vaso di color di metallo dipinto sopra l’intonicatura negli scompartim. delle pareti…)

18th century
18th century
475 x 390 mm (18.7 x 15.4 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 329; Petrucci (1953) 160; Wilton-Ely 462.
Credit Line: Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892)
Accession Number: Retrospective TBD

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  • 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: 475 x 390 mm (18.7 x 15.4 in.)

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