Avanzo del pronao del Tempio di Giove Tonante

Avanzo del pronao del Tempio di Giove Tonante

Item Information

Title:
Avanzo del pronao del Tempio di Giove Tonante
Title (translated):
Remains of the porch of the Temple of Jupiter Tonans [Jupiter the Thunderer]
Title (alt.):
XXXII. Fig. II. Avanzo del pronao del Tempio di Giove Tonante
Description:
Actually the Temple of Vespasian and Titus. See Wilton-Ely no. 182 for another view.
Artist:
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
Name on Item:
Piranesi Archit. dis. inc.
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 1: Piranesi Antichità Romane: Opera del Cavaliere > Le Antichità Romane, Volume 1
Subjects:
Archaeological sites
Roman temples
Porticoes (Porches)
Titus, Emperor of Rome, 40-81
Vespasian, Emperor of Rome, 9-79
Places:
Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Campitelli (rione)
Temple of Vespasian and Titus, Rome, Italy
Extent:
1 print : etching ; plate mark 14 x 20 cm, on sheet 60 x 45 cm
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Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
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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: 341
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 1, plate 32, figure 2
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 figure information, plate upper right: Fig. II. On same sheet as Wilton-Ely II: 340
Accession #:
Tosti D.4 V.01
Identifier:
19_04_vol01_032a
Barcode:
3666001165196