Tempio antico

published 1748/1749

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Associated Names
Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, engraving, drypoint

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 40.6 x 25.8 cm (16 x 10 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1974.66.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Robison 1986, no. 19, State i/iv

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1918

  • Focillon 17.

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.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Gio Batta Piranesi Arch.o inv, ed incise in Roma l'Anno 1743

Wikidata ID

Q65568898

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