About the Artwork
The Theatre of Marcellus
1757
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778
Italian
Unknown
Etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 15 7/8 × 21 1/2 inches (40.3 × 54.6 cm) Sheet: 17 3/8 × 24 3/4 inches (44.1 × 62.9 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S866
Public Domain
Markings
Signed in plate, lower right: Piranesi Architetto fec.
Titled in plate, lower center: TEATRO DI MARCELLO. Inscribed, bottom left margin: Questo fu fabricato da Augusto, e dedicato a Marcello suo Nipote. | 1. Palazzo Orsini ristaurato da Baldassare da siena Architetto. Bottom right margin: 2. Cupola di S. Maria in Campitelli. | Presso l'Autore a Strada Felice nel Palazzo Tomati vicino alla Trinita de' monti A - d[ ] paoli e mezzo.
Provenance
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Piranesi's Views of Rome. Exh. cat., University of Michigan-Dearborn. Dearborn, 1986, no. 6, p. 33 (ill.).
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, The Theatre of Marcellus, 1757, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S866.
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