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Subject
View of the tomb of Cecilia Metella on the Via Appia Antica.

Accession number SM 4.66
Graphite and brown ink pen (preliminary drawing made in graphite) on hand-made paper (vergé)
Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Neuruppin 1781 – 1841 Berlino
1803/1804
23.4 x 14.9 cm

Placement
Kupferstichkabinett (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)

Credits
Kupferstichkabinett

Subject
Drawing of the Via Appia Antica and title page with etching of the volume “Varie Vedute di Roma Antica e Moderna”.

Accession number Hdz 134v
Sanguine on paper
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Mogliano Veneto 1720 – 1778 Roma
Approximately 1764
60.5 x 44.7 cm

Placement
Kunstbibliothek (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)

Credits
Kunstbibliothek

Subject
Portrait head of Cleopatra VII, daughter of Ptolemy XII Auletes and queen with her brother Ptolemy XIII.

Accession number 1976.10
White, slightly yellowish marble
29.5 x 16 x 22.5
Third quarter of the 1st century B.C.

Provenance
Found on the Via Appia

Placement
Altes Museum (Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)

Credits
Altes Museum

Subject
Front of a sarcophagus with the nine Muses accompanied by Apollo and Athena. On the lid, bearing an inscription in the middle, you see philosophers, poets and the Muses.

Accession number SK 844
White marble
51 x 205.3 cm (front of the sarcophagus). 22 x 205.3 cm (lid)
End of the 2nd century A.D./ beginning of the 3rd century A.D.

Provenance
Found on the Via Appia

Placement
Altes Museum (Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)

Credits
Altes Museum

Subject
Funerary relief of the freedman Publius Aiedius Amphio and Aiedia Fausta Melior, his wife, whose names are inscribed in the epigraph at the base.

Accession number SK 840
Marble
64.5 x 102 x 24 cm
Third quarter of the 1st century B.C.

Provenance
Found on the Via Appia

Placement
Altes Museum (Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)

Credits
Altes Museum

Subject
Dionysian procession sculpted on the closing slab of a loculus.

Accession number SK 850
Marble
74.5 x 205 cm
Second quarter of the 2nd century A.D.

Provenance
Found on the Via Appia

Placement
Altes Museum (Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)

Credits
Altes Museum

Subject
General map of the Via Latina excavations by Lorenzo Fortunati; part of the excavation report by Lorenzo Fortunati of 1857-1858.

Placement
German Archaeological Institute

Credits
Relazione generale degli scavi e scoperte fatte lungo la via Latina: redatta dalle stesso intraprendente e scopritore Lorenzo Fortunati dall’ottobre 1857 all’ottobre 1858, by Lorenzo Fortunati, Rome 1859

Subject
Drawing of a sepulchre on the Via Appia Antica and of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Rome.

Accession number OZ223_1_15
Pencil, ink
Joseph Maria Olbrich, Troppau 1867 – 1908 Düsseldorf
1894
14.0 x 23.0 cm

Placement
Kunstbibliothek (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)

Credits
Kunstbibliothek

Subject
View of the tomb of Cecilia Metella on the Via Appia Antica.

Accession number 1897, 1027
Albumen paper
39.4 x 55 cm
1870-1875

Placement
Kunstbibliothek (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)

Credits
Kunstbibliothek

Subject
View of the Roman Campagna hit by a storm. In particular, the artist’s gaze captures the arches of the Claudius Aqueduct.

Accession number F.V. 40
Oil on cardboard
Carl Blechen, Cottbus 1798 – 1840 Berlino
1829
27.5 x 44.5 cm

Placement
Alte Nationalgalerie (Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)

Credits
Alte Nationalgalerie

References
Alte Nationalgalerie – Kunst im langen 19. Jahrhundert. Aus der Sammlung der Nationalgalerie, a cura di R. Gleis – B. Verwiebe – Y. Deseyve, Leipzig 2023, p. 57.

Malkunst im 19. Jahrhundert. Die Sammlung der Nationalgalerie, a cura di A. Wesenberg – B. Verwiebe – R. Freyberger, Petersberg 2017, p. 84.

Schinkel, Tomb of Cecilia Metella

Month: October 2023