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Hadrian's Villa: The Piazza d'Oro (Piazza of Gold) (Veduta degli Avanzi della Circonferenza delle antiche Fabbriche di una delle Piazze della Villa Adriana oggidi chiamata Piazza d'oro)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi Italian

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Public Domain

Object Details

Series/Portfolio: Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)

Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome)

Date: ca. 1776

Medium: Etching

Dimensions: sheet: 18 5/8 x 24 1/2 in. (47.3 x 62.2 cm)

Classification: Prints

Credit Line: The Elisha Whittlelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1960

Accession Number: 60.536.10

Vendor: Mrs. David Keppel (American)
Focillon 846; Hind 72.132 i/iii; Wilton-Ely 308.265

Essays
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)
Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851)
Neoclassicism
The French Academy in Rome
The Grand Tour
The Printed Image in the West: History and Techniques
The Rediscovery of Classical Antiquity
Venice in the Eighteenth Century

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