Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
Ornamenti di stucco, esistenti nella volta della stanza sepolcrale di L. Arrunzio
Item Information
- Title:
- Ornamenti di stucco, esistenti nella volta della stanza sepolcrale di L. Arrunzio
- Title (translated):
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Stucco decoration on the vault of the tomb chamber of L. Arruntius
- Title (alt.):
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XII. Ornamenti di stucco, esistenti nella volta della stanza sepolcrale di L. Arrunzio
- Description:
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Figures by J. Barbault.
- Artist:
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Name on Item:
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Piranesi Archit. dis. ed inc. Barbault scolpi le figure
- Date:
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1756
(created)
1835–1837 (issued)
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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The Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection
- Series:
- Piranesi Volume 2: Piranesi Antichità Romane 2 > Le Antichità Romane, Volume 2
- Subjects:
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Architectural decorations & ornaments
Archaeological sites
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Arruntius, L. (Lucius), active 43 B.C.-17 B.C.
- Places:
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Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Esquilino (rione)
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate marks 40 x 61 cm and 5 x 61 cm, on sheet 60 x 89 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/br86c076r
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Language:
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Italian
- Notes:
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Title from item.
Alternative title and translated title from the catalogue raisonné. The English translation is of the alternative title.
Wilton-Ely I: 369
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 2, plate 12
- Notes (acquisition):
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Gift; Thomas Gold Appleton; 1869
- Notes (date):
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Dates supplied by cataloger from catalogue raisonné. Plates from this series originally created by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in 1756. His son Francesco and his daughter Laura both worked with him and, after his death, maintained the original plates. The twenty-nine volumes in Boston Public Library’s Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection were assembled and published in Paris from 1835-1837.
- Notes (citation):
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Wilton-Ely, John. "Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Complete Etchings. Volume I." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1994, San Francisco.
- Notes (object):
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Signatures, Piranesi lower left, Barbault lower right. Lettered with volume and plate information, plate upper margin: Tom. II. XII
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.02
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol02_012
- Barcode:
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3666001164280
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