The Lion Bas-Reliefs

Minneapolis Institute of Art

The Lion Bas-Reliefs

Giovanni Battista PiranesiLinkedCulture matchlcp-4ee1b5daa952

Date
c. 1761
Medium
Etching
Department
European Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
9063

Piranesi added this plate and plate II to the series in 1761, when he was reworking the original fourteen plates. The two new plates reflect his increasing familiarity with the art of Roman antiquity, which played a much more prominent role in these new images. Enormous reliefs of lions populate the foreground, and to the left a captured prisoner, though made of stone, seems to react to the sinister view before him. Italy, Europe

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The Martha T. Wallace Memorial Fund, 1930

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