Remains of Ancient Buildings among Which Stands the Sepulchral Urn of Marcus Agrippa Made Entirely of Porphyry, Which Serves Today as the Tomb of Clement XII… (Vestiggi d’antichi Edifici fra i quali evvi l’Urna Sepolcrale tutta d’un pezzo…)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi1743

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Title: Remains of Ancient Buildings among Which Stands the Sepulchral Urn of Marcus Agrippa Made Entirely of Porphyry, Which Serves Today as the Tomb of Clement XII… (Vestiggi d’antichi Edifici fra i quali evvi l’Urna Sepolcrale tutta d’un pezzo…)
Creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Date Created: 1743
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower left: “Gio Batta Piranesi Architetto invento, ed incise in Roma”; inscribed, lower right: numeral “5”
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 on laid paper
Keywords: architecture, death, graves, Italy, Rome, urns
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; loose sheet, not bound in volume
Bibliography: Focillon 5; Hind (1922) pp. 75, 78 ff.; Wilton-Ely 18
Associated People: Created by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778)
Accession Number: 1973.D1.38.19

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