Arco di Settimio Severo

probably 1749/1750

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Artwork overview

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1985.

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.

Inscriptions

across bottom in plate: ... / Arco di Settimio Severo / ... / Piranesi Architetto fec. / ... / Presso l'autore a Strada Felice nel palazzo Tomati vicino alla Trinità de'monti. A paoli due e mezzo.; by later hands, lower right in graphite: 53 / H54 / F/809

Wikidata ID

Q74069932


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