A. Pianta del Mausoleo di Sant'Elena Madre di Costantino Imp.re sulla Via Lavicana

A. Pianta del Mausoleo di Sant'Elena Madre di Costantino Imp.re sulla Via Lavicana

Item Information

Title:
A. Pianta del Mausoleo di Sant'Elena Madre di Costantino Imp.re sulla Via Lavicana
Title (translated):
A. Plan of the mausoleum of St. Helen, mother of the Emperor Constantine, on the Via Lavicana...
Title (alt.):
XVI. A. Pianta del mausoleo di Sant'Elena Madre di Costantino Imp.re sulla Via Lavicana...
Artist:
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
Name on Item:
Piranesi Archit. dis. et inc.
Date:
1756 (created)
1835–1837 (issued)
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Plans
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
The Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection
Series:
Piranesi Volume 3: Piranesi Antichità Romane 3 > Le Antichità Romane, Volume 3
Subjects:
Archaeological sites
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Helena, Saint, approximately 255-approximately 330
Places:
Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Tor Pignatara
Mausoleum of Saint Elena Tor Pignattara, Rome, Italy
Extent:
1 print : etching ; plate mark 35 x 23 cm, on sheet 60 x 45 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/br86c203n
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
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: 436
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 3, plate 16
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):
Signature, lower left. Lettered with volume and plate information, plate upper margin: Tom. III. XVI
Accession #:
Tosti D.4 V.03
Identifier:
19_04_vol03_016
Barcode:
3666001165493