Tempio di Atena in Paestum, Francesco Piranesi, after Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1768 - 1810

Title(s)

Tempio di Atena in Paestum
De tempel van Juno

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1979-121

Catalogue reference

• Focillon 599-XIX

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Description

Gezicht op de ruïnes van de Tempio di Atena (of Tempio di Cerere) te Paestum. Tekst in het Italiaans in ondermarge. Rechtsboven: Planche XIX.

Artist

• print maker: Francesco Piranesi (mentioned on object)
• after drawing by: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Place

Italy

Dating

1768 - 1810

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 498 mm × width 662 mm

What

• landscape with ruins
• cow
• temple, shrine ~ non-Christian religions
• ruin of a building ~ architecture
• exterior ~ representation of a building

Where

• Tempel van Athena
• Paestum

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1979

Copyright

Public domain

Related

• Gezicht op de tempel van ‘Juno’ bij Paestum

• Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Henri Focillon (Henri Joseph) , 1881-1943, p. 324, cat.nr. 599 XIX