Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
Dimostrazione in grande delle parti Tempio della Fortvna Virile
Item Information
- Title:
- Dimostrazione in grande delle parti Tempio della Fortvna Virile
- Title (translated):
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Reconstruction of details from the Temple of Fortuna Virilis
- Title (alt.):
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LI. Dimostrazione in grande delle parti Tempio della Fortuna Virile
- Description:
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Column base. See Wilton-Ely 520.
- Artist:
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- 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 4: Piranesi Antichita Romane 4 > Le Antichità Romane, Volume 4
- Subjects:
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Archaeological sites
Roman temples
Columns
- Places:
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Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Ripa (rione)
Tempio di Portuno
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate mark 40 x 26 cm, on sheet 61 x 45 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/rb68z0638
- 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: 522
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 4, plate 51
- 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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Unsigned. Lettered with volume and plate information, plate upper margin: Tom IV LI
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.04
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol4_054
- Barcode:
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36666001163514
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