Large Giovanni Piranesi Vase Print, "A Sua Eccellenza Miledi Maria Fox" (1770) 2 of 2

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Large scale quality art lithograph based on a 1770 etching, A Sua Eccellenza Miledi Maria Fox.

The central vase is … more Large scale quality art lithograph based on a 1770 etching, A Sua Eccellenza Miledi Maria Fox.

The central vase is carved with a priest and worshippers sacrificing the suovetaurilia (a boar, a ram and a bull), and is placed on a sarcophagus guarded by winged sphinxes. The left vase is carved with two birds eating grapes or berries, and the right one with acanthus decoration

Published by Sidney Lucas in New York during the early 1900s.

Giovanni Battista (or Giambattista) Piranesi, also known as simply Piranesi; (4 October 1720 – 9 November 1778) was an Italian classical archaeologist, architect, and artist, famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" (Carceri d'invenzione). less