The Piranesi vase
Marble.Ancient parts — 1st cent. BCE — 1st cent. CE. Composition by G. B. Piranesi — second half of the 18th cent.
Height 125 cm. Inv. Nos. ГР-3023 / А. 121.Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage MuseumPhoto by Ilya Shurygin
The Piranesi vase.
Marble.
Ancient parts — 1st cent. BCE — 1st cent. CE. Composition by G. B. Piranesi — second half of the 18th cent.
Height 125 cm.
Ancient parts — 1st cent. BCE — 1st cent. CE. Composition by G. B. Piranesi — second half of the 18th cent.
Height 125 cm.
Inv. Nos. ГР-3023 / А. 121.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum
(Санкт-Петербург, Государственный Эрмитаж).
Origin:
From Tivoli (?). Entered the Hermitage collection in 1850 fron Tzarskoye Selo. Was acquired in 1826 from Lebzelter (?).
Description:
The composite work was created by the artist and restorer Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). It was assembled of an ancient Roman puteal and a handle of a vessel of the 1st cent. BC with the rest parts as new additions. In 1769 G. B. Piranesi had acquired some ancient fragments found at the site of Hadrian’s villa in Tivoli and has assembled several vases of them imitating the Roman classics.
Literature:
Credits:
© 2013. Photo: Ilya Shurygin.
Data: museum annotation and the site of the State Hermitage.
Data: museum annotation and the site of the State Hermitage.
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