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View of the Flavian Amphitheatre, Called the Colosseum (Veduta dell'Anfiteatro Flavio, detto il Colosseo) from the series Views of Rome (Vedute di Roma)

View of the Flavian Amphitheatre, Called the Colosseum (Veduta dell'Anfiteatro Flavio, detto il Colosseo) from the series Views of Rome (Vedute di Roma)

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

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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