The Lion Bas-Reliefs

published 1761

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mark J. Millard, New York; gift to NGA, 1983.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1918

  • Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi; essai de catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre. Paris: Librairie Renouard, Henri Laurens, 1918.

1922

  • Hind, Arthur M. Giovanni Battista Piranesi; a critical study with a list of his published works and detailed catalogues of the prisons and the views of Rome. London: Cotswold Gallery; New York: E. Weyhe, 1922.

1986

  • Robison, Andrew. Piranesi Early Architectural Fantasies: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Etchings. Washington: National Gallery of Art; Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1986.

2000

  • Pollak et al. 2000, no. 82

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: Piranesi F.

Wikidata ID

Q74045913


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