Album 1
arrow left swipe to the left Visible reflectance photograph Verso of the twenty-seventh sheet, Album 1 activate zoom zoom tool
Leaf 27 verso activate zoom zoom tool
Visible reflectance photograph Ash urn, part of a pilaster frame, studies of reliefs, sarcophagus with lion motif activate zoom zoom tool arrow right swipe to the right
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Works on this double page

  • Visible reflectance photograph Black chalk drawing of an ash urn with axisymmetrical tritons and dolphins on the wall zone and crowning of clipeus and masks
  • Visible reflectance photograph Part of the frame of the wave vines pilaster in the Loggia di Cleopatra of the Villa Medici drawn with red chalk
  • Visible reflectance photograph Relief studies drawn in red chalk, above two lion protomes in side view and corresponding palmette in a vase, below a wavy vine filled with figures
  • Transmitted light photograph of the Piranesi drawing
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Album 1, Leaf 28

The lower-right drawing is particularly beautiful and shows the lion on an ancient sarcophagus. The vivid rendering as an almost living creature may indicate it is the work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi himself.

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