Frontispiece: Fantasy of ruins with a statue of Minerva in the center foreground

Work on Paper

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DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Frontispiece: Fantasy of ruins with a statue of Minerva in the center foreground

Entry/Object ID

5077

Description

Digital image scanned from "Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Complete Etchings" Vol.1 by John Wilton-Ely, 1994.

Artwork Details

Medium

Etching

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul Art Museum, gift of Judge John T. O'Connell

Made/Created

Artist

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista

Place

City

Rome

County

Italy

Continent

Europe

Notes

Creation Date: mid-18th century, printed early 19th century

Ethnography

Notes

Italian Europe, Italy

Lexicon

Legacy Lexicon

Class

WORKS ON PAPER

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Image

Width

60.5 cm

Length

39.5 cm

Exhibition

Piranesi

Interpretative Labels

Label

Frontispiece: Fantasy of ruins with a statue of Minerva in the center foreground Piranesi, Giovanni Battista Mid-19th century Digital image scanned from "Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Complete Etchings" Vol.1 by John Wilton-Ely, 1994.