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Lot 247

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian 1720-1778-  Veduta del Tempio di Giove Tonante;  etching,...

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Lot 247

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 
Italian 1720-1778- 
Veduta del Tempio di Giove Tonante; 
etching,...

Price Realised: £394

Estimate: £150 - £200

Price realised is hammer price plus fees (31.2% Buyers Premium inclusive of VAT).

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Lot 247

Description

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 
Italian 1720-1778- 

Veduta del Tempio di Giove Tonante; 

etching, signed 'Piranesi Archit. dis. ed inc.' (within the plate, lower right), 40 x 60 cm. 

Provenance: 
Private Collection, UK. 

Note: 
The Temple of Jupiter Tonans was a small temple in Rome which was dedicated to Jupiter by Augustus Caesar in 22 BC. It was probably situated at the entrance to the Area Capitolina, the sanctuary of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill, near the much older and larger Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus. The temple was considered among Augustus's most impressive archaeological projects, and played an important role in the Secular Games, a religious and artistic festival that he revived in 17 BCE. It was also noted by Roman authors for the artworks, particularly statues, displayed in and around it.

Much of the temple's history is unclear, though it was mentioned in a fourth-century CE panegyric and may have been restored around the beginning of the second century CE. Nothing, except perhaps a small part of its foundations, survives of the temple. From 1555 until the 19th century, the Temple of Vespasian and Titus in the Roman Forum was misidentified as the Temple of Jupiter Tonans. Eventually the Italian archaeologist Luigi Canina correctly identified the former temple during excavations in 1844.

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The buyer shall pay the hammer price together with a premium thereon of 26% up to £20,000 (31.2% inclusive of VAT), 25% from £20,001 - £500,000 (30% inclusive of VAT), 20% from £500,001 thereafter (24% inclusive of VAT). The premium price is subject to VAT at the standard rate.

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