Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770, Italian, Details of the Corinthian Order at the Third Theater of Laodicea and Plan of the Circus at Laodicea, ca. 1750
- Title:
- Details of the Corinthian Order at the Third Theater of Laodicea and Plan of the Circus at Laodicea
- Date:
- ca. 1750
- Materials & Techniques:
- Gray wash with black ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 21 1/4 x 14 13/16 inches (53.9 x 37.7 cm), Image: 12 5/16 x 7 15/16 inches (31.3 x 20.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper left: "64 | LV"; in brown ink, upper left: "LXII."; within image: labels A-H, measurements, scale; in graphite, lower center: "Laodicea"; in brown ink, on back, upper center: "18"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.990
- Classification:
- Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- amphitheater | architectural subject | capitals | circus (Roman arena) | columns | Corinthian order | friezes | moldings | ornament | site plan | theater
- Associated Places:
- Asia | Denizli Ili | Ege kiyilari | Laodicea | Turkey
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:27068
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Daniel R. McReynolds, Palladio's legacy, architectural polemics in eighteenth-century Venice , no. 5, Marsilio, Venezia, 2011, pp. 90-91, fig. 47, NJ18.P18 M27 2011 (LC) (HAAS) [ORBIS]
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