IMAGE
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :Tempio antico inventato e disegnato alla maniera di quelli che si fabbricavano in onore della Dea Vesta ... Gio. Batt.a Piranesi Arch.o inv. ed incise in Roma l'anno 1743
- Date
- 1743
- By
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Reference
- C-091-064
- Description
An imaginative reconstruction of the interior of the temple of the Vestal Virgins with its altar and eternal flame inside a rotunda with colums on the left. A semi-circular staircase rises towards the altar on the right.
Focillon 17
Other Titles - Ancient temple devised and drawn in the manner of those which used to be built in honour of the Goddess Vesta; in the centre can be seen the great altar upon which the Vestal Virgins kept the sacred flame burning for ever. [Partial translation]
Extended Title - From La prima parte di architetture e prospettive. 1743
Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s).
Physical Description: Etching, 397 x 253 mm on sheet 542 x 384 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :[Etchings from La prima parte di architteture e prospettive (1743), I grotteschi (ca 1747), Le vedute di Roma (1745-1778), I carceri (1760-1761)] / Giovanni Battista Piranesi inven. et incis. [Rome : G B Piranesi, mid-1760s to early 1770s]
- Format
- 1 b&w art print(s), Works of art, Etchings, Etching, 397 x 253 mm on sheet 542 x 384 mm
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