Personification of Architecture with the Genius of the Fine Arts
1797
Artist, Italian, 1758 - 1823

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and aquatint printed in red-brown on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 22.9 × 30 cm (9 × 11 13/16 in.)
sheet: 30.4 × 44.1 cm (11 15/16 × 17 3/8 in.) -
Accession
2017.56.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Enrico Cortona, Milan); purchased 2017 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1992
Ottani Cavina, Anna. Felice Giani, 1758 - 1823, e la cultura di fine secolo. Milan, 1992: vol I, 40 and 46, n. 55.
Inscriptions
on monument in image: RATIOCINATIO / ET FABRICA / AN. MDCCXCVVI.; lower center in image: Felice Giani inv. et sculp.
Wikidata ID
Q77259682