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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, printmaker

Ancient temple commonly clled the Temple of Health on the Via d'Albanio five miles outside Rome (Tempio Autico Volgarmente deeto della Salute su la via d'Albanio, cinque miglia lontan de Roma), 1763

Description

Maker

  • Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1720-1778, Italian, printmaker

Title

Ancient temple commonly clled the Temple of Health on the Via d'Albanio five miles outside Rome (Tempio Autico Volgarmente deeto della Salute su la via d'Albanio, cinque miglia lontan de Roma)

Year

1763

Medium

Etching

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • etching (printing process)

Supports

  • Heavyweight cream laid paper

Dimensions

Plate: 41.4 x 56.2 cm (16 5/16 x 22 1/8 inches)

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Work on Paper

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Jesse H. Metcalf

Object Number

16.592

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Ancient temple commonly clled the Temple of Health on the Via d'Albanio five miles outside Rome (Tempio Autico Volgarmente deeto della Salute su la via d'Albanio, cinque miglia lontan de Roma) with the accession number of 16.592. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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