Le Antichità Romane (volume IV)

published 1757

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    1 vol: very early issue, datable 1757; ill: 56 etchings including frontispiece

  • Credit Line

    Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection

  • Dimensions

    page size: 55 x 42 cm (21 5/8 x 16 9/16 in.)
    overall size (volume closed): 57.5 x 44.2 cm (22 5/8 x 17 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1984.8.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Focillon 1918, no. 337, State -395

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Associated Artworks

Foundations of the Mausoleum of Hadrian

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1756

Foundations of the Mausoleum of Hadrian

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1756

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mark J. Millard, New York; gift to NGA, 1984.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1994

  • The Glory of Venice, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, 395, 396, 484, no. 278 (repro. p. 395)(entry by Olimpia Theodoli).

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.

2000

  • Pollak et al. 2000, no.88

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