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A high archway with a sculpted bovine head in the center is covered in vines and sandwiched bet…
Arco di Rimino fabbricato da Augusto.
A high archway with a sculpted bovine head in the center is covered in vines and sandwiched bet…
A high archway with a sculpted bovine head in the center is covered in vines and sandwiched between ruins on the right and high crenellated walls on the left. In the bottom right foreground is a carved stone and on the left two villas.
Arco di Rimino fabbricato da Augusto, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, c. 1748, etching on paper, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia.

Arco di Rimino fabbricato da Augusto.

Artist (Italian, 1720 - 1778)
Datec. 1748
MediumEtching on paper
DimensionsPlate: 5 1/4 × 10 1/2 inches (13.3 × 26.7 cm)
Portfolio/SeriesPlate 17, "Antichità romane de’ tempi della repubblica e de’ primi imperatori disegnate ed incise da Giambattista Prianesi architetetto veneziano" series
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Julianna F. Waring.
Object number2020.17.14
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