Exchange: F17 Bigham - ARCH 212 / HISTART 212 - Understanding Architecture

F17 Bigham - ARCH 212 / HISTART 212 - Understanding Architecture - Object Study Room

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Carceri d'Inuenzione, Plate V
etching on paper
22 1/4 in. x 16 1/4 in. ( 56.5 cm x 41.3 cm )
Gift of J. Frederick Hoffman

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
No. 18a from the Opere varie series
etching on paper
5 1/4 in. x 7 13/16 in. ( 13.3 cm x 19.8 cm )
Museum Purchase

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Gothic Arch, from the 'Carceri'
etching and engraving on laid paper
20 7/8 in. x 30 5/16 in. ( 53 cm x 77 cm )
Museum purchase made possible by a gift from Helmut Stern

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Large double-folio print, with fold marks. Contains various monuments and their text from ancient Rome. Title plate beneath print indicates that the fragments were from ancient Rome and found in various ancient ruins, with the exception of fragment XLIX, currently (at time of print) in the collection of the Collegio Romano, a building then housing the Jesuits' Rome seminary.<br />Print is patched. Separate plate marks are visible between image and inscription. The image is patched from four segments, while the text below is patched from two segments. Paper bears no watermark. Folio fold marks are noted on copy in file. Large text portions read as follows: <br />Inscription 1 (in image plate, center): senatus populusque Romanus / monumenta marmorea magistratuum / triumphorumque ab urbe condita ad / tempora divi Augusti ruderibus in foro / egestis eruta impensa Al ex(andri) Farnesii card(inalis) / Pauli III Pont(ificis) Max(imi) nepot(is) in Capitolio p(osita) <br />Inscription 2 (in separate text plate attach

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Senatus populusque Romanus / monumenta marmorea magistratuum / triumphorumque ab urbe condita ad / tempora divi Augusti ruderibus in foro / egestis eruta impensa Al ex(andri) Farnesii card(inalis) / Pauli III Pont(ificis) Max(imi) nepot(is) in Capitolio p(osita), from Piranesi's Lapides Capitolini (1762)
engraving, printed in black ink on paper
23 1/4 in. x 50 in. ( 59.06 cm x 127 cm )
Gift of the Ernst Pulgram and Frances McSparran Collection

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Divers Manners of Ornamenting Chimneys Series. Pl. 48. Mantlepiece with frieze decorated with the head of Medusa between two centaurs. (Ch. dont la frise est décorée d'une tête de Méduse entre deux centaures.)
etching on paper
9 13/16 in. x 15 1/8 in. ( 24.9 cm x 38.4 cm )
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Prospetto del Lastricato e de'margini dell'antica via Appia, plate 25 of 'L'Anti
etching on paper
21 9/16 in. x 16 1/4 in. ( 54.8 cm x 41.2 cm )
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Roman Antiquities Series. Vol. III, Pl. V. Mattoni quadrati segati e linee diag
etching on paper
13 1/2 in. x 9 1/4 in. ( 34.3 cm x 23.5 cm )
Gift of Miss Anna M. Barnard

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Imaginary Prisons Series. Pl 9. Prison IX.
etching on paper
21 3/8 in. x 15 13/16 in. ( 54.3 cm x 40.2 cm )
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Iscrizione del Mausole della Famiglia de' Plauzi a Ponte Lugano (XI of t. III, L
etching on paper
20 5/8 in. x 30 1/2 in. ( 52.39 cm x 77.47 cm )
Gift of Mr. Nick Nicolas

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Second frontispiece for Volume II of 'Le antichita romane e d'Italia'
etching on paper
19 5/8 in. x 28 13/16 in. ( 49.8 cm x 73.2 cm )
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Dimostrazioni dell'Emissario del Lago Albano (outlet of Lake Albano), Tav. VII,
etching on two sheets of paper
16 1/4 in. x 25 in. ( 41.3 cm x 63.5 cm )
Museum Purchase

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A black and white etching depicting several Etruscan friezes.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Study of Fragments of Etruscan Friezes at Corneto from Trattato della introduzione e del progresso delle belle arti in Europa ne’ tempi antichi
etching on laid paper
20 13/16 in x 14 15/16 in (52.86 cm x 37.94 cm);28 1/16 in x 22 1/16 in (71.28 cm x 56.04 cm);16 5/16 in x 10 15/16 in (41.43 cm x 27.78 cm);20 13/16 in x 14 15/16 in (52.86 cm x 37.94 cm)
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink

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