Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
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):
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A. Plan of the animal cages built by Domitian for the Amphitheater...
- Title (alt.):
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LIII. A. Pianta del serraglio delle fiere fabbricato da Domiziano per uso dell'Anfiteatro...
- Description:
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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:
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Piranesi Archit. dis. inc.
- Date:
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1756
(created)
1835–1837 (issued)
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
Sections
Elevations
- 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
Amphitheaters
Arcades (Architectural components)
Cages
- Places:
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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:
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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: 524
Le Antichità Romane, Volume 4, plate 53
- 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 LIII
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.04
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol4_056
- Barcode:
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36666001163530
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