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Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :Avanzi della Villa de Mecenate a Tivoli construita di travertini a opera incerta. A. Capitello, il sole rimaste intero. B. Avanzi d'intonico dipinto a minio. Piranesi sc. [1764]
- Date
- 1764
- By
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Reference
- C-091-018
- Description
View looking along the ruins of the 'Villa of Maecenas' at Tivoli, near Rome, built of Travertine marble. A traveller is standing at the base of the ruins in the foreground and there are other figures nearby and in the distance, all dwarfed by the ruins. (Focillon number 786).
See shelf list for details, also Ross Fraser's catalogue of Piranesi exhibition at Auckland city Art Gallery, 1963.
Gaius Maecenas was a member of the ancient Etruscan aristocracy in Rome. A friend and benefactor of Horace and Vergil, he left his extensive property to Augustus.
Other Titles - Remains of the Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli, built of travertine at an unknown date. A. the sole remaining intact capital. B. Remains of plaster painted in red lead. From The views of Rome.
Extended Title - From; Le vedute di Roma, 1745 / 1748-1778.
Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s).
Physical Description: Etching, 460 x 670 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, 460 x 670 mm
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Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778. Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :Avanzi della Villa de Mecenate a Tivoli construita di travertini a opera incerta. A. Capitello, il sole rimaste intero. B. Avanzi d'intonico dipinto a minio. Piranesi sc. [1764]. 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]. Ref: C-091-018. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23097454More information can be found in our terms of use.