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- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi
(Italian, 1720 – 1778) - Title
- View of the Remains of the Dining Room of the Golden House of Nero Commonly Called the Temple of Peace (Veduta degli avanzi del Tablino della Casa aurea di Nerone detti volgarmente il Tempio della Pace) from the series Views of Rome (Vedute di Roma)
- Date
- 1774
- Medium
- Etching and engraving
- Dimensions
- 19 5/16 x 28 1/4 in. Overall
- Credit
- Transfer from the Wisconsin Historical Society
- Accession No.
- 05.1.32
- 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.
- Haas, Richard and Marilyn S. Kushner. "The Prints of Richard Haas: A Catalogue Raisonne 1970-2004." New York: John Szoke Graphics, Inc., 2006.
- Hults, Linda C. "The Print in the Western World." Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. pp. 337, pp. 339, no. 6.15
- 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
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