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Gianbattista Piranesi
Mozano di Mestre, Venice 1720 – 1778 Rome
Veduta interna della Camera sepolcrale nella Vigna Casale a Porta S. Sebastiano
Veduta interna della Camera sepolcrale nella Vigna Casale a Porta S. Sebastiano
Interior view of the tomb chamber in the Casali vineyards at Porta San Sebastiano
Pl.LVI, Vol II Le Antichità Romane
Wilton-Ely 413
370 x 502 mm
Original etching, c1755.
The plate signed. Trace of the usual central fold.
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Le Antichità di Roma
The ultimately four volumes of 250 plates of Roman Antiquities began with eleven plates published in 1750 as Camera sepolcrali degli Antichi Romani le quale esistono dentro e fuori de Roma (ancient tombs in and around Rome) expanded in the following years and published in 1756 as Le Antichità di Roma.
Volumes II and III were devoted to the extensive remains of funerary monuments in and around Rome.
In recognition of the achievement of Le Antichità Romane Piranesi was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in London.
(Piranesi’s son Francesco would publish a second (posthumous) edition in 1784.)
Prints from Le Antichità di Roma in this exhibition are:
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