Large Sculpture Gallery Built on Arches and Lit from above… (Galleria grande di Statue, la cui struttura e con Archi e col lume preso dall’alto…)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi1743

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Title: Large Sculpture Gallery Built on Arches and Lit from above… (Galleria grande di Statue, la cui struttura e con Archi e col lume preso dall’alto…)
Creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Date Created: 1743
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower left margin: “Gio Batta. Piranesi Arch. o inv. ed incise in Roma”; inscribed, lower right: numeral “1”
Set or Series Title: Part One of Architecture and Perspectives… (Prima Parte di Architettura e Prospettive inventate ed incise da Giambattista Piranesi Architteto Veneziano fra gli Arcadi Salcindio Tiseio)
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), before 1953
Materials & Techniques: Etching with title printed from separate plate on laid paper
Keywords: architecture, art galleries, Italy, Rome
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: First Paris edition, 1800–1807
Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 383 mm x 254 mm (15.08 in. x 10 in.).
Bibliography: Focillon 3; Hind (1922) pp. 75, 78 ff.; Wilton-Ely 4
Associated People: Created by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778)
Accession Number: 1973.D1.38.18

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