A. Pianta del serraglio delle fiere fabbricato da Domiziano per uso dell'Anfiteatro

A. Pianta del serraglio delle fiere fabbricato da Domiziano per uso dell'Anfiteatro

Item Information

Title:
A. Pianta del serraglio delle fiere fabbricato da Domiziano per uso dell'Anfiteatro
Title (translated):
A. Plan of the animal cages built by Domitian for the Amphitheater...
Title (alt.):
LIII. A. Pianta del serraglio delle fiere fabbricato da Domiziano per uso dell'Anfiteatro...
Description:
With elevation and section of buried portion. The so-called Curia Hostilia was actually the substructure of the Temple of Claudius, near SS. Giovanni e Paolo. Cf. no. 160.
Artist:
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
Name on Item:
Piranesi Archit. dis. inc.
Date:
1756 (created)
1835–1837 (issued)
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Sections
Elevations
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
The Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection
Series:
Piranesi Volume 4: Piranesi Antichita Romane 4 > Le Antichità Romane, Volume 4
Subjects:
Archaeological sites
Amphitheaters
Arcades (Architectural components)
Cages
Places:
Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Celio (rione)
Tempio del Divo Claudio
Extent:
1 print : etching ; plate mark 40 x 61 cm, on sheet 61 x 90 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/rb68z067c
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: 524
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 4, plate 53
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 right. Lettered with volume and plate information, plate upper margin: Tom IV LIII
Accession #:
Tosti D.4 V.04
Identifier:
19_04_vol4_056
Barcode:
36666001163530