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Currently not on display

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Venice, 1720 - Roma, 1778

Le antichità romane (vol. 1)

Date 1756
Materials and Techniques etching, engraving
Size(cm) 53.5 x 39.9 (book size)
Standard ref. Focillon 144-368, 370-395
Category Books
Collection Number L.1990-0001

Provenance

William H. Schab Gallery, New York, by which sold to the NMWA, 1990.

Exhibition History

2012
Hubert Robert: Les jardins du Temps, The National Museum of Western Art, 6 March 2012 - 20 May 2012, cat. no. 15
2015
NO MUSEUM, NO LIFE?: Art-Museum Encyclopedia to Come: From the Collections of the National Museums of Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 16 June 2015 - 13 September 2015, cat. no. A-8

Bibliography

1918
Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi: Essai de catalogue raisoné de son œuvre. Paris, 1918, pp. 20-32.
1922
Hind, Arthur Mayger. Giovanni Battista Piranesi: A Critical Study with a List of His Published Works and Detailed Catalogue of the Prisons and the Views of Rome. London, 1922, pp. 83-84.
1978
Monferini, Augusta. "Antichità Romane". Piranesi: Incisioni-Rami-Legature-Architecture (exh. cat.). Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini. 3rd ed., Vicenza, 1981(1st ed. 1978) , pp. 33-39.
1978
Wilton-Ely, John. The Mind and Art of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. London, Thames and Hudson, 1978, pp. 45-65.
1986
Robison, Andrew. Piranesi: Early Architectural Fantasies: a catalogue raisonné of the etchings. Washington D. C., 1986, pp. 215-239.
1994
Wilton-Ely, John. Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Complete Etchings. San Francisco, Alan Wofsy, 1994, no. 288.
1994
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. Nos. 25-26 (April 1990-March 1992), 1994, List of New Acquisitions, p. 48.
2002
Baumgartner, Marcel. "Akribische Visionen: Zu Piranesis Rekonstruktion der Domus aurea in der Pianta dell'antico Foro Romano". Vision Piranesi (exh. cat.). Stemshorn, Max; Grötz, Susanne, eds. Stadthaus Ulm, 28 April - 23 June 2002; Städtische Galerie Erlangen, 28 September - 20 Oktober 2002. Tübingen/ Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth, 2002, pp. 31-42.
2012
Hubert Robert: Les jardins du Temps (exh. cat.). The National Museum of Western Art; Fukuoka Art Museum; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art; The Tokyo Shimbun, eds. [Tokyo/ Fukuoka/ Shizuoka], The National Museum of Western Art; Western Art Foundation; Fukuoka Art Museum; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art; The Tokyo Shimbun, 2012, pp. 79, 304, cat. no. 15, col. repr.

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