Grand'urna di marmo, creduta di Alessandro Severo, e di Giulia Mamea sua madre

Grand'urna di marmo, creduta di Alessandro Severo, e di Giulia Mamea sua madre

Item Information

Title:
Grand'urna di marmo, creduta di Alessandro Severo, e di Giulia Mamea sua madre
Title (translated):
Large marble sarcophagus believed to belong to Alexander Severus and his mother, Julia Mamaea
Title (alt.):
XXXIII. Grand'urna di marmo, creduta di Alessandro Severo, e di Giulia Mamea sua madre
Description:
Now in the Capitoline collection. Figures by J. Barbault.
Artist:
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
Name on Item:
Piranesi Archit. dis. ed inc. Barbault scolpi le figure
Date:
1756 (created)
1835–1837 (issued)
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
The Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection
Series:
Piranesi Volume 2: Piranesi Antichità Romane 2 > Le Antichità Romane, Volume 2
Subjects:
Sarcophagi
Archaeological sites
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Severus Alexander, Emperor of Rome, 208-235
Julia Mamaea, -235
Places:
Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Don Bosco (quartiere)
Mausoleum of Alessandro Severo, Rome, Italy
Extent:
1 print : etching ; plate mark 45 x 56 cm, on sheet 61 x 90 cm
Permalink:
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Terms of Use:
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Language:
Italian
Notes:
Title from item.
Alternative title and translated title from the catalogue raisonné. The English translation is of the alternative title.
Wilton-Ely I: 390
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 2, plate 33
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Thomas Gold Appleton; 1869
Notes (date):
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):
Wilton-Ely, John. "Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Complete Etchings. Volume I." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1994, San Francisco.
Notes (object):
Signatures, lower right. Lettered with volume and plate information, plate upper right: Tom II. XXXIII
Accession #:
Tosti D.4 V.02
Identifier:
19_04_vol02_033
Barcode:
3666001164793