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- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi
(Italian, 1720 – 1778) - Title
- View of the Flavian Amphitheatre, Called the Colosseum (Veduta dell'Anfiteatro Flavio, detto il Colosseo) from the series Views of Rome (Vedute di Roma)
- Date
- 1776
- Medium
- Etching and engraving
- Dimensions
- 19 1/2 x 27 3/4 in. Overall
- Credit
- Transfer from the Wisconsin Historical Society
- Accession No.
- 05.1.24
- Classification
- Prints
- Geography
- Italy
Related
before 1904, by descent to Mrs. Mary C. McLorg (Superior, WI); 1905, sold by Mary C. McLorg to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin [now the Wisconsin Historical Society] (Madison, WI); 1950, loaned to the University of Wisconsin-Madison''s Department of Art History; 1970, loan transferred to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]; 2001, Wisconsin Historical Society transferred to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]
- Wilton-Ely, John. "Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Complete Etchings." San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1994.
- Haggerty Museum of Art. "The Cult of Ruins: Visions of Antiquity in the Eighteenth Century." Milwaukee: Haggerty Museum of Art, 1999
- Hults, Linda C. "The Print in the Western World." Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. pp. 337, 340, no. 6.16
- Piranesi's Views of Rome: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 2/26/2000–4/23/2000
- Cult of Ruins, The: Visions of Antiquity in the Eighteenth Century: Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, 3/26/1999–5/2/1999
- Art of Piranesi, The: Art History Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 11/4/1976–12/10/1976
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