Album 1
arrow left swipe to the left Visible reflectance photograph Verso of the eighteenth sheet, Album 1 activate zoom zoom tool
Leaf 18 verso activate zoom zoom tool
Visible reflectance photograph Relief with Victory and trophies, half of a corbel with griffin motif, fragment of a coffering activate zoom zoom tool arrow right swipe to the right
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Works on this double page

  • Visible reflectance photograph Relief with winged Victory and numerous trophies from the Domus Flavia on the Palatine, drawn with red chalk in great detail
  • Visible reflectance photograph Half of a corbel with a griffin, drawn in black chalk
  • Visible reflectance photograph Chalk drawing of the tomb altar of Calpurnius Beryllus with large rectangular inscription field and flanking pilasters in the Capitoline Museums
  • Visible reflectance photograph Column fragment with masks, dogs and rosettes in cassettes, drawn in chalk
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Album 1, Leaf 19

The small red-chalk drawing at bottom centre is by Giovanni Battista Piranesi himself and shows an Etruscan capital, as he himself states in the note above it: “finale etrusco”. As a precursor to Roman art, Etruscan art played a vital role in Piranesi’s understanding of antiquity and theory of art.

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