Templum Iunoni, ac Iovi Pavellennio (The Temple of Juno and Jupiter)

1748

Giovanni Francesco Costa

Artist, Venetian, 1711 - 1773

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Purchased as the Gift of Ann and Matthew Nimetz

  • Dimensions

    plate: 47.2 × 55.9 cm (18 9/16 × 22 in.)
    sheet: 49.1 × 59 cm (19 5/16 × 23 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.55.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mason 1979, C.1, State i/ii(?)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Cesare Morini, Milan (d. 2013); his widow, Karin Wachtel, Milan; (Stanza del Borgo, Milan); purchased 2014 by NGA

Associated Names

Bibliography

1979

  • Mason, Rainer Michael. "Nuovo catalogo delle incisioni archeologiche di Gianfrancesco Costa/A new catalogue of archaeological etchings by Gianfrancesco Costa." Print collector/Il conoscitore di stampe 41 no. 2 (1979):C.1, i/ii

Inscriptions

lower center in image: Templum Iunoni, ac Ioui Panellennio ab Adriano Imp: dicatum, Bibliotheca et Gymnasium Picturis et Statuis undique exornatum, / AEdificiorumq: reliquias quibus Athenas ampliauerat, es. probatissimus Scriptoribus collegit, delineauit et Sculpsit Io: Franc: Costa Venetus / Atq. Ornatissimo et Clarissimo Viro Car: Eman. Comiti de Groscanal bonarum Artium cultori eximio carunq. Vindici Acerrino / D. D. D.

Wikidata ID

Q77008397

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