Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
Avanzi di un Collegio di Silvano Aureliano distanti circa quattro miglia da Roma fuori della Porta Maggiore nel luogo denominato Le Cento-Celle spettante all'eccellentissima Casa Barberini
Avanzi di un Collegio di Silvano Aureliano distanti circa quattro miglia da Roma fuori della Porta Maggiore nel luogo denominato Le Cento-Celle spettante alleccellentissima Casa Barberini
Item Information
- Title:
- Avanzi di un Collegio di Silvano Aureliano distanti circa quattro miglia da Roma fuori della Porta Maggiore nel luogo denominato Le Cento-Celle spettante all'eccellentissima Casa Barberini
- Title (translated):
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Ruins of a college of Silvanus Aurelianus about four miles from Rome outside the Porta Maggiore in the place called the Hundred Cells, belonging to the most excellent Barberini family.
- Title (alt.):
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LVII. Avanzi di un Collegio di Silvano Aureliano distanti circa quattro miglia da Roma fuori della Porta Maggiore nel luogo denominato Le Cento-Celle spettante all'eccellentissima Casa Barberini
- Description:
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View, plan and inscriptions.
- Artist:
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Name on Item:
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Piranesi del. ed inc.
- Date:
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1756
(created)
1835–1837 (issued)
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
Plans
- 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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Inscriptions
Roman roads
Archaeological sites
Religious groups
- Places:
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Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Esquilino (rione)
Porta Maggiore
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate mark 46 x 29 cm, on sheet 61 x 44 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/rb68z0752
- 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: 528
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 4, plate 57
- 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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Signature, lower right. Lettered with volume and plate information, plate upper margin: Tom IV LVII
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.04
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol4_060
- Barcode:
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36666001163571
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