Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770, Italian, Plan of the Second Theater of Laodicea and Details of a Composite Order, ca. 1750
- Title:
- Plan of the Second Theater of Laodicea and Details of a Composite Order
- Date:
- ca. 1750
- Materials & Techniques:
- Gray wash with black and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 21 1/8 x 14 13/16 inches (53.6 x 37.7 cm), Image: 12 5/16 x 7 15/16 inches (31.3 x 20.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper left: "LVI"; in brown ink, upper left: "LXV."; within image: labels A-F; in black ink, measurements and scale; in graphite, lower center: "Plan [...] of Cornice of the Composite order | of the 2d Theatre at Laodicea"
watermark: "IV" [J. Villedary] in monogram (Churchill 408)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.989
- Classification:
- Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- amphitheater | architectural subject | capitals | Composite order | entablatures | friezes | Lydian | moldings | scale (rule) | 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:27067
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Daniel R. McReynolds, Palladio's legacy, architectural polemics in eighteenth-century Venice , no. 5, Marsilio, Venezia, 2011, p. 87, fig. 46, NJ18.P18 M27 2011 (LC) (HAAS) [ORBIS]
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