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Marble Urn with Its Lid, Found inside the Mausoleum of Caecilia Metella During the Pontificate of Paul III and Now in the Courtyard of the Palazzo Farnese… (Urna di marmo col sou Coperchio ritrovata dentro al Mausoleo di Cecilia Metella…)


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Marble Urn with Its Lid, Found inside the Mausoleum of Caecilia Metella During the Pontificate of Paul III and Now in the Courtyard of the Palazzo Farnese… (Urna di marmo col sou Coperchio ritrovata dentro al Mausoleo di Cecilia Metella…)

18th century
18th century
360 x 595 mm (14.2 x 23.4 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 334; Petrucci (1953) 165; Wilton-Ely 467.
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
  • Italy - TGN 1000080
  • mausoleums
  • Rome - TGN 7000874 (standard English name used here for this well-known city)

Dimensions
  • plate Dimensions: 360 x 595 mm (14.2 x 23.4 in.)

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