ClassificationsWorks of Art on Paper
Artist
Pirro Ligorio
(Italian, ca. 1510 - 1583)
Publisher
Michele Tramezzino
(Italian, active 1539 - 1571)
Anteiquae Urbis Imago (Image of the Ancient City)
Date1561
MediumCopper engraving
Credit LineJoint purchase through the generosity of David Parsons, the Patrons of Paper of the Michael C. Carlos Museum, and the Emory Libraries
Dimensions52 x 60 in. (132.1 x 152.4 cm)
Object number2007.035.001A/L
Exhibition HistoryRecent Aquisitions, Michael C. Carlos Museum, February 26 - June 5, 2011 (F&G only)Antichità, Teatro, Magnificenza: Renaissance and Baroque Images of Rome, Michael C. Carlos Museum, August 24 - November 17, 2013
Published ReferencesSarah McPhee, et al., Antichita, Teatro, Magnificenza: Renaissance and Baroque Images of Rome (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2013), cover image, 18-21, 60.
Elisabeth Barizza and Marco Falsetti, Rome and the Legacy of Louis I. Kahn (New York: Routledge), front cover image and rear cover image (G only).
ProvenancePurchased by MCCM from Martayan Lan Rare Books Inc., New York, New York.
Status
Not on viewCollections
- Works of Art on Paper
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1756
19th Century