Monuments Sepulcraux, from "Recueil de divers Monumens Anciens répandus en plusieurs endroits de L'Italie"
Unnumbered plate with capriccio of inscriptions from funerary plaques, with groups of figures among the oversized monuments. This image appears below plate 14, Plan of the Columbarium of Livia, which was discovered on the Via Appia in 1726 and is now destroyed. These two images appear across from page 16, which contains a portion of the chapter describing the Columbarium of Livia. Based on inscriptions included in this text, it appears that the plaques shown in the capriccio are based on those found in the Columbarium of Livia.
Artwork Details
- Title: Monuments Sepulcraux, from "Recueil de divers Monumens Anciens répandus en plusieurs endroits de L'Italie"
- Series/Portfolio: Recueil de divers Monumens Anciens répandus en plusieurs endroits de L'Italie
- Artist: After Jean Barbault (French, Viarmes 1718–1762 Rome)
- Printer: Giunchi Heritiers de Komarek
- Publisher: Bouchard & Gravier (Rome)
- Published in: Rome
- Date: 1770
- Medium: Etching
- Dimensions: Plate: 8 1/16 × 11 in. (20.4 × 28 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1952
- Object Number: 52.519.88(39)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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