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Ruins of a College of Silvanus Aurelianus about Four Miles from Rome outside the Porta Maggiore in the Place Called the Hundred Cells, Belonging to the Most Excellent Barberini family (Avanzi di un Collegio di Silvano Aureliano… [see full title])


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Ruins of a College of Silvanus Aurelianus about Four Miles from Rome outside the Porta Maggiore in the Place Called the Hundred Cells, Belonging to the Most Excellent Barberini family (Avanzi di un Collegio di Silvano Aureliano… [see full title])

18th century
18th century
355 x 285 mm (14 x 11.2 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 395; Petrucci (1953) 229; Wilton-Ely 528.
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: 355 x 285 mm (14 x 11.2 in.)

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