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View of Some Columns of the Facade opposite the One Shown in the Preceding Plate [Basilica]… (Vue de quelques unes des Colonnes de la facade opposee a celle de la planche precedente…)


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View of Some Columns of the Facade opposite the One Shown in the Preceding Plate [Basilica]… (Vue de quelques unes des Colonnes de la facade opposee a celle de la planche precedente…)

18th century
18th century
495 x 652 mm (19.5 x 25.7 in.)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, (1720–1778)

Object Type: print
Medium and Support: Etching
Series: from Differentes vues…de Pesto
Marks: Signed in plate on the scroll, lower right
Bibliography: Focillon 585; Petrucci (1953) 664; Wilton-Ely 720.
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.]
  • columns (architectural elements) - Use for cylindrical, upright masonry members, usually either giving support or appearing to give support and usually comprised of three sections: a base, capital, and shaft; common also on furniture, especially as decorative elements. Use also for all uprights in steel frame or concrete frame structures. For square or rectangular members, either in masonry construction or classically treated, and for massive uprights in Medieval architecture, use "piers (supporting elements)"; for wooden square uprights, use "posts." [January 1995 related term added. March 1993 descriptor changed, was 'columns'; alternate term changed, was 'column'; descriptor moved. July 1991 scope note changed.]
  • Italy - TGN 1000080
  • plans (drawings) - Use for orthographic drawings in the horizontal plane, generally depicting discrete objects or spaces. Can also be used for a set of drawings for a project. For general reference to depictions or photographs showing structures or sites seen from directly above, use "plan views." For representations in plan view of portions of the earth's surface, emphasizing arterial or regional relationships and using larger scales, prefer "maps." [April 1992 descriptor moved. September 1991 descriptor changed, was "plans"; alternate term changed, was 'plan'. April 1991 scope note changed.]

Dimensions
  • plate Dimensions: 495 x 652 mm (19.5 x 25.7 in.)

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