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Girandola at Castel Sant’Angelo
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Caption | The (girandole) was the firework display lit from the Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome during Easter festivities. It lasted a full hour, reaching a climax at nine o’clock in the evening, with a fan-shaped shower of stars as the grand finale – the very moment Desprez depicted here. He lit up the structure, reflected in the River Tiber, with coloured printing ink. Origin: Italy. Date: c 1781 – c 1785. Object ID: RP-P-2010-145. |
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Creator | Francesco Piranesi, mentioned on object, print maker, Italiaans (1758–1810) |
Artwork medium | etching (paper) |
Credit | Rijksmuseum |
Terms of use | [a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/" target="LL"]Public Domain Dedication (CC0 1.0)[/a] |
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