IMAGE
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 :Campidoglio antico a cui si ascendava per circa cento gradini... Piranesi f[ecit] [Between 1743 and 1778]
- Date
- 1743 - 1778
- By
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Reference
- C-091-060
- Description
A large square with flights of steps bearing ornamental columns and fountains, a triumphal arch in the right background and an equestrian statue of Augustus Caesar in the right foreground. On the left, a circular temple surrounded by Corinthian columns
Focillon 9
Other Titles - Ancient Capitol to which one used to ascend via around 100 steps. In the midst of these steps stand rostral columns, trophies and other ornaments. The temple built by Octavius Augustus can be seen ... [partial translation]
Extended Title - Nel mezzo di questi gradini vi e una piazza sopra la quale vi stanno collone rostrale ... Vassi el tempio fabbricato da Ottaviano Augusto nella guerra cantabrica per voto fatto a Giove Tonante...
Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s).
Physical Description: Etching, 401 x 250 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, 401 x 250 mm
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