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The Column of Marcus Aurelius

Giovanni Battista PIRANESI
The Column of Marcus Aurelius
 1758

Medium
etching

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1965

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Catalogue/s Raisonné
H 52 IV

Accession Number
1480-5

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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Subjects (general)
Cityscapes Daily life Monuments and Memorials

Subjects (specific)
carriages (vehicles) Column of Marcus Aurelius columns (architectural elements) Italy (nation) piazzas (squares) Rome (inhabited place) street scenes triumphal columns

Movements
Neoclassicism

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Essay
Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s View of Piazza di Monte Cavallo
Essay
The well
Essay
Index 1945–2010
Exhibition
Imaginary Prisons

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