Six bronze lamps. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1770.
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
- Date:
- [between 1768 and 1778]
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- 2254903i
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Four of the lamps are stated to be in the museum of Athanasius Kircher: upper left, a lamp in the form of a Moor's head; lower left a lamp in the form of an actor's mask; right background, a lamp in the form of a seated young man; right foreground, a lamp in the form of a head of a bearded man suspended on chains attached to bells; far right, a lamp in the form of a vessel surrounded by a snake. Centre, a bronze lamp suspended by chains attached to a winged genius with a tail in the form of volutes, excavated in the Palazzo Caetani (subsequently Palazzo Ruspoli: A. Amendola, I Caetani di Sermoneta, Rome 2010)
The lamp said to be in the form of a Moor's head has a protrusion from the mouth which resembles the lip plate worn by women in some parts of Ethiopia
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