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Section of the Animal Cages Built by Domitian (Sezione del serraglio delle fiere fabbricato da Domiziano)
18th century18th century
395 x 225 mm (15.6 x 8.9 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 392; Petrucci (1953) 226; Wilton-Ely 525 and p. 579 with remark: “The so-called Curia Hostilia. Cf. no. 524.”
Credit Line:
Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892)
Accession Number:
Retrospective TBD
Keywords
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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)
- sections - Orthographic drawings of a building, object, or site as if cut through and exposed at one specific plane. [April 1992 descriptor moved.]
Dimensions
- plate Dimensions: 395 x 225 mm (15.6 x 8.9 in.)
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Credit Caption
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, (1720–1778) . Section of the Animal Cages Built by Domitian (Sezione del serraglio delle fiere fabbricato da Domiziano), 18th century. From Roman Antiquities (Le Antichità Romane). Etching. plate : 395 x 225 mm (15.6 x 8.9 in.). DAC accession number Retrospective TBD. Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892).