Boston Public LibraryThe Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings
Ara antica
Item Information
- Title:
- Ara antica
- Title (translated):
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Ancient altar
- Title (alt.):
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VIII. Ara antica
- Description:
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In S. Maria della Stella, Albano. See also Wilton-Ely II: 990.
- Artist:
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Name on Item:
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Piranesi F.
- Date:
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1764
(created)
1836 (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 11: Antichita D'Albano > Antichità di Albano e di Castel Gandolfo
- Subjects:
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Holy water stoups
Antiquities
Bas-reliefs
- Places:
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Italy > Latian (region) > Roma (province) > Albano Laziale
Santa Maria della Stella
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate mark 45 x 25 cm, on sheet 61 x 45 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/rb68z099n
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Publisher:
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Parigi [Paris] :
Firmin-Didot
- 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 II: 650
Antichità di Albano e di Castel Gandolfo, plate 8
- Notes (acquisition):
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Gift; Thomas Gold Appleton; 1869
- Notes (date):
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Dates supplied by cataloger from material accompanying item and catalogue raisonné. Plates from this series originally created by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in 1764. His son Francesco and his daughter Laura both worked with him and, after his death, maintained the original plates. The item in the Boston Public Library’s Antonio Cardinal Tosti Collection were assembled and published in Paris in 1836.
- Notes (citation):
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Wilton-Ely, John. "Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Complete Etchings. Volume II." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1994, San Francisco.
- Notes (object):
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Signature, lower right. Lettered with plate information, plate upper right: Tav. VIII
- Accession #:
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Tosti D.4 V.11
- Identifier:
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19_04_vol11_020
- Barcode:
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36666001163704
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