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Remains of the Substructures and Buttress Walls of the Ancient City, Earlier in Date Than the Aurelian Walls… (Reliquiae substructionum et anteridum moenium veteris Urbis, Aurelianensibus priorum…)


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Remains of the Substructures and Buttress Walls of the Ancient City, Earlier in Date Than the Aurelian Walls… (Reliquiae substructionum et anteridum moenium veteris Urbis, Aurelianensibus priorum…)

18th century
18th century
200 x 400 mm (7.9 x 15.7 in.)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, (1720–1778)

Object Type: print
Medium and Support: Etching
Series: from The Campus Martius of Ancient Rome, the Work of G. B. Piranesi, Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, London (Il Campo Marzio dell’ Antica Roma, Opera di G. B. Piranesi socio della reale società degli antiquari di Londra)
Marks: Unsigned
Bibliography: Focillon 471; Petrucci (1953) 451a; Wilton-Ely 602.
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: 200 x 400 mm (7.9 x 15.7 in.)

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