Capriccio known as The Skeletons
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| RIBApix ref no |
RIBA125913 |
| Artist/Photographer | Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (1720-1778)
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| Subject Date | 1747 |
| Image Date | 1747 |
| View | Exterior |
| Medium | Print |
| Library Reference | SB101/2(1) |
| Orientation | Landscape |
| Colour / B&W |
Colour |
| Credit |
RIBA Collections
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| Notes |
NOTES:
This print is from a suite of four untitled plates, known as the `Grotteschi'. Probably first published in 1747 or 1748, and often reprinted, this copy was probably published during the 1760s. The plates, showing fantastic arrangements of human and architectural remains, were among Piranesi's earliest publications.
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Subject tags
ruins, mystery