About the Artwork
Basilica di San Lorenzo fuori le Mura
1750
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778
Italian
Unknown
Etching
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Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Arthur Hilton Nixon
65.74
Public Domain
Markings
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Inscribed, in plate, on cartouche: Veduta della Basilica di S. Lorenco fuor delle mura | Via Tiburtina [illegible] Piranesi
Provenance
Arthur Hilton Nixon
1965-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Perlove, Shelley and Jacqueline Lawson. Piranesi's Views of Rome. Dearborn, 1986, p. 23, no. 1, p. 24 (ill.).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Basilica di San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, 1750, etching. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Arthur Hilton Nixon, 65.74.
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