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Box with a View of Tivoli
1804
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
Raffaelli introduced the technique of making mosaics with tiny glass tesserae rather than with pieces of stone in Rome in about 1775. He specialized in reproducing paintings.
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- Title: Box with a View of Tivoli
- Creator: Giacomo Raffaelli (Italian, 1753-1836)
- Date Created: 1804
- External Link: For more information about this and thousands of other works of art in the Walters Art Museum collection, please visit art.thewalters.org
- Roles: Artist: Giacomo Raffaelli (Italian, 1753-1836)
- Provenance: Kosmak Collection; Walters Art Museum, 1975, by gift.
- Object Type: miniatures;mosaics
- Medium: glass tesserae, gilt on metal
- Inscriptions: [Transcription] GIACOMO RAFFAELLI FCT IN ROMA 1804
- Dimensions: 2 13/16 in. (7.2 cm)
- Credit Line: Gift of Miss Katherine Kosmak and Mr. George Kosmak, 1975
- Classification: Mosaics & Cosmati
- Accession Number: 43.2
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