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Title

Senatus populusque Romanus / monumenta marmorea magistratuum / triumphorumque ab urbe condita ad / tempora divi Augusti ruderibus in foro / egestis eruta impensa Al ex(andri) Farnesii card(inalis) / Pauli III Pont(ificis) Max(imi) nepot(is) in Capitolio p(osita), from Piranesi's Lapides Capitolini (1762)

Artist

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Physical Description

Large double-folio print, with fold marks. Contains various monuments and their text from ancient Rome. Title plate beneath print indicates that the fragments were from ancient Rome and found in various ancient ruins, with the exception of fragment XLIX, currently (at time of print) in the collection of the Collegio Romano, a building then housing the Jesuits' Rome seminary.

Print is patched. Separate plate marks are visible between image and inscription. The image is patched from four segments, while the text below is patched from two segments. Paper bears no watermark. Folio fold marks are noted on copy in file. Large text portions read as follows:

Inscription 1 (in image plate, center): senatus populusque Romanus / monumenta marmorea magistratuum / triumphorumque ab urbe condita ad / tempora divi Augusti ruderibus in foro / egestis eruta impensa Al ex(andri) Farnesii card(inalis) / Pauli III Pont(ificis) Max(imi) nepot(is) in Capitolio p(osita)

Inscription 2 (in separate text plate attached at bottom): Lapides Capitolini / Sive Fastorum fragmenta, quos Verrius Flaccus, Caii et Lucii, Augusti Nepotum, praeceptor ase dispositos in inferiore fori parte conlocaverat, nunc primum edita prout cermuntur in Capitolio servata / nempe characteris et Lapidum forma, additis ad ornatum degantioribus aliquot veteribus sigillis, et anaglyplus / Fragmentum XLIX in Collegio Romano Patrum Societatis Jesu adservatum

Artist Life Dates

Venice, 1720 - 1778, Rome

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

1762

Accession Number

2007/2.117

Medium and Support

engraving, printed in black ink on paper

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rank 10.06266

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Title

Untitled

Artist

Artist Unknown

Physical Description

Paper size: lh 20 2/5cm & rh 20 1/5cm x tw 16cm & bw 15 3/5cm. Image size approx: h 9cm x w 4cm.

Accession Number

2008/2.459

Medium and Support

wood engraving on cream laid Japan tissue

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rank 8.94849

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Title

The Discovery of Mars and Venus

Artist

Jacob Cornelisz. Cobaert

Physical Description

A nude man and woman recline together on the right side of this octagonal plaque. They lay upon the mesh of a net, which is being pulled by a nude male figure seated nearby next to an anvil. Behind the seated man appear two standing figures working at a brick forge. Another pair of figures stands in the middle ground with a row of trees behind them. A diminutive figure mounted on horses appears against a disk in the sky.

Artist Life Dates

active 1602-1621

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

1602-1621

Accession Number

1969/2.158

Medium and Support

bronze

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rank 8.45790

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Title

Rome, Palatine Ruins

Artist

Guiseppe Alinari

Artist Life Dates

(1836 - 1890)

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1880

Accession Number

1980/1.168

Medium and Support

albumen print on paper

relevance

rank 8.34913

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Title

Sheet of Figure Studies

Artist

Pietro Testa

Physical Description

This sheet contains studies of fourteen figures in various stages of elaboration. Several of the figures are represented standing while gazing upward, including a man with an outstretched arm on the left edge of the sheet, a woman standing before a column near the center, and a man with a cross over his shoulder in the upper right corner. Two summarily sketched seated figures in the lower left corner appear to develop ideas for a similar figure placed at the foot of a column in a more detailed study near the middle of the sheet. In the upper left quadrant of the sheet appears a monk kneeling beneath a tree with a figure holding a staff standing behind him. Marked off by an octagonal frame along the lower edge is a seated female figure pointing upward with her right hand and holding a globe in her left.

Artist Life Dates

(Lucca, Italy, 1612 - 1650, Rome, Italy)

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

1635-1640

Accession Number

2008/2.199.4

Medium and Support

pen and brown ink on laid paper

relevance

rank 8.30514

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Title

Paestum

Artist

Luigi Kasimir

Physical Description

Print depicting the city of Paestum in Rome from the inside of a temple. The etching is in color, and the image was probably colored after the printing process was complete. The perspective is from the ground level, as if the viewer was standing inside the structure and looking towards the outside.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1881, active 1905-1925

Object Creation Date

1923

Accession Number

2009/2.97

Medium and Support

etching on paper

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rank 8.23517

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Title

Study for an Overdoor Decoration in the Sala Regia of the Vatican

Artist

Taddeo Zuccaro

Physical Description

This drawing depicts two addorsed female figures reclining on a triangular slope. The women are partly clothed, and the one on the left wears an elephant-shaped headpiece. Between their shoulders appears a blank escutcheon held by two putti. Nude men in the background strain to hold back piles of objects that include shields and spears.

Artist Life Dates

(1529 - 1566)

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

1564

Accession Number

1966/1.93

Medium and Support

pen and brown ink with brown wash on buff paper

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rank 8.08760

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Title

Roma, The Arch of Titus

Artist

Luigi Kasimir

Physical Description

Etching depicting the Arch of Titus in Rome (Roma). The etching is colored, possibly after the image had already been printed. The perspective of the image is one from the ground level looking directly through the arch to the buildings on the other side.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1881, active 1905-1925

Object Creation Date

1923

Accession Number

2009/2.96

Medium and Support

etching on paper

relevance

rank 7.92270

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Title

Combat of Romans and Dacians (after a relief on the Arch of Constantine, Rome)

Artist

Nicolas Beatrizet

Physical Description

This engraving reproduces a relief sculpture from the second century CE of Roman soldiers under Emperor Trajan conquering the Dacians in what is today Romania. The sculpture was later removed from its original monument built to honor Trajan and incorporated into the Arch of Constantine, erected in Rome by the emperor Constantine between 312 and 315.

The relief depicts mounted Roman soldiers, dressed in their characteristic armor and helmets, surging to the left and right from the center of the scene. A group of soldiers sounding horns stands in their midst. The Romans' vanquished Dacian foes lie trampled beneath the horses' hooves.

Artist Life Dates

c.1515 - after 1565

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

1553

Accession Number

1960/2.41

Medium and Support

engraving on laid paper

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rank 7.78385

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Title

View of the River, Rome

Artist

James Anderson

Artist Life Dates

1813-1877

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1890

Accession Number

1980/2.237

Medium and Support

albumen print on paper

relevance

rank 7.71405

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Title

The Capital, Rome

Artist

James Anderson

Artist Life Dates

1813-1877

Century

19th Century

Object Creation Date

circa 1880

Accession Number

1980/1.187

Medium and Support

albumen print on paper

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rank 7.59137

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Title

The Deposition of Christ

Artist

Guglielmo della Porta

Physical Description

A small crowd of figures gathers around the body of a dead man and a fainting woman in the center of this bronze panel. The dead man's body and the two men holding his burial shroud appear in the foreground, while the fainting woman and the three women and the man who support her are positioned immediately above and behind them. Another woman with loose, flowing hair leans forward to kiss the left hand of the dead man, uniting the two parts of this central group. Four other male figures, rendered in slightly smaller scale and lower relief, look on from the sides. Three crosses provide the backdrop to the drama. The central cross is empty, yet two twisting nude males are suspended from the crosses on either side.

Artist Life Dates

1515-1577

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1564

Accession Number

1962/2.20

Medium and Support

bronze relief

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rank 7.40804

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Title

Capriccio with Roman Ruins, one of two "Monuments antiques"

Artist

Jacques-Gabriel Huquier

Physical Description

An outdoor scene with classical ruins, people and broken sculptures of people.There are large intact columns on the left side.

Artist Life Dates

(1695 - 1772)

Century

18th century

Accession Number

2013/2.575

Medium and Support

etching on heavy laid paper

relevance

rank 7.19202

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