Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
Grand'urna di marmo, creduta di Alessandro Severo, e di Giulia Mamea sua madre
Item Information
- Title:
- Grand'urna di marmo, creduta di Alessandro Severo, e di Giulia Mamea sua madre
- Title (translated):
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Large marble sarcophagus believed to belong to Alexander Severus and his mother, Julia Mamaea
- Title (alt.):
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XXXIII. Grand'urna di marmo, creduta di Alessandro Severo, e di Giulia Mamea sua madre
- Description:
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Now in the Capitoline collection. Figures by J. Barbault.
- Artist:
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Name on Item:
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Piranesi Archit. dis. ed inc. Barbault scolpi le figure
- 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 2: Piranesi Antichità Romane 2 > Le Antichità Romane, Volume 2
- Subjects:
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Sarcophagi
Archaeological sites
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Severus Alexander, Emperor of Rome, 208-235
Julia Mamaea, -235
- Places:
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Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Rome > Don Bosco (quartiere)
Mausoleum of Alessandro Severo, Rome, Italy
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate mark 45 x 56 cm, on sheet 61 x 90 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/br86c1157
- 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: 390
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 2, plate 33
- 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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Signatures, lower right. Lettered with volume and plate information, plate upper right: Tom II. XXXIII
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.02
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol02_033
- Barcode:
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3666001164793
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