Two bronze lamps. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1770.

  • Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Date:
[between 1768 and 1778]
Reference:
756352i
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Description

Right, a bronze lamp in the form of a chariot drawn by bulls, excavated in the Palazzo Caetani (subsequently Palazzo Ruspoli: A. Amendola, I Caetani di Sermoneta, Rome 2010). Left, a caliciform lamp in the museum of Athanasius Kircher

Publication/Creation

[Rome] : [between 1768 and 1778]

Physical description

1 print : etching ; platemark 39 x 28 cm

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Lettering

A. Lucerna ant.a di bronzo fatta per appendersi, come lo dimostrano le sue catene, e l'uncino Questa lucerna è stata ritrovata l'anno 1773 negli escavi fatti nel cortile del palazzo del ecc.mo signor Francesco Gaetani duca di Sermoneta situato a S. Maria Mag.e. K. Lucerna, che si conserva nel museo Kirkeriano del collegio Romano.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 756352i

Exhibitions note

Exhibited in a Piranesi display at Wellcome Library, London, 20 November 2014 - 18 January 2018.

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