Giovanni Battista PiranesiItalian, 1720–1778Drie kandelabers
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Where is “Drie kandelabers” now? Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Unknown.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
About the work
Museum text in Dutch
Drie kandelabers. Bij elke kandelaber een bijschrift. Opdracht in ondermarge.
Rijksmuseum
Details
- Accession number
- RP-P-OB-39.646
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
In the life of Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The whole life1777
The temples of Paestum
A year before his death Piranesi explored the then little-known ancient Greek temples at Paestum (he had also visited Pompeii) and in 1777–1778 published the series of etchings “Remains of the Edifices of Paestum”.
1778
Publishes “Vases, Candelabra, Sarcophagi, Tripods…”
In this collection of etchings, as in the “Ancient Decorative Motifs” of 1769, Piranesi combined Pompeian, Greek, Egyptian, Italic and Etruscan motifs transformed by his Baroque-Neoclassical imagination, standing at the origins of European eclecticism. He died in Rome that same year after a long illness.
9 November 1778
Died
![View of the Remains of the Praetorian Fort [the Poecile] in Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1770](https://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUAM:INV165626_dynmc/full/!2400,2400/0/default.jpg)
