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Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :Veduta della Piazza di Monte Cavallo. Piranesi del et sculp. [1750]
- Date
- 1750
- By
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Reference
- C-091-041
- Description
View of the Piazza Quirinale in Rome, with huge statues of the Dioscuri or horse-tamers, with Alexander and his horse in the foreground, Papal palaces to the right and pedestrians and carriages curculating around the square
The Dioscuri are the sole remnants from the ancient Roman Baths of Constantine
Other Titles - View of the Piazza Monte Cavallo. Pontifical palace. Colossal statues representing Alexander taming his horse Bucephalos, works of the Greek sculptors Praxiteles and Phaedo ... [partial translation]
Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s).
Physical Description: Etching, 388 x 539 mm
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- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- 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, 388 x 539 mm
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