The Pier with the Lamp, c. 1761
Giovanni Battista Piranesiexpand_more
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The Martha T. Wallace Memorial Fund, 1930expand_more P.11,339
Not on Viewexpand_more
The 1700s taste for the sublime—the sensation of power beyond comprehension—created an audience for dark and mysterious pictures. In our own time, it is this pleasure in terror that fuels the popularity of horror films.
Details
- Title
- The Pier with the Lamp
- Artist Life
- Italian, 1720–1778
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- P.11,339
- Provenance
- Erbach-Erbach family, Schloss Erbach Hofbibliothek, Erbach (Odenwald), Germany. F. H. Bresler Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisc.
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Hind prisons 15 ii/iii, F.38, Robison 41 vi/vii
- Curator Approved
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