Fireplace Mantle with Smoking Embers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778

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mid-18th century

Etching on paper

Frame: 16 × 20 3/4 in. (40.6 × 52.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Trevor Fairbrother and John T. Kirk

2011.63.37

Portfolio / Series Title

Diverse maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi

Geography

Place Made: Italy, Europe

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

On view

Label

While better known for his real and imagined scenes of Rome, Giovanni Battista Piranesi also applied his familiarity with Antiquity to a series of prints that present fanciful decorations for fireplaces and furniture. The present design includes satyr heads, florets, and acanthus leaves, all elements taken from classical sculpture and repeated and reinterpreted throughout the early modern period.

From the 2024 exhibition Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400–1750, curated by Elizabeth Rice Mattison, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programming and Curator of European Art, and Ashley B. Offill, Curator of Collections

Course History

History 42.01, Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies 22.01, Gender & European Society, Patrick Meehan, Spring 2024

History 96.39, Saints and Relics, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Spring 2024

Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Noemi Perego, Spring 2024

Italian 11.01, Intensive Italian, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024

Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024

Italian 3.01, Introductory Italian III, Tania Convertini, Spring 2024

Italian 3.02, Introductory Italian III, Giorgio Alberti, Spring 2024

Exhibition History

Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400–1750, Citrin Family Gallery and Engles Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 23, 2024–March 22, 2025.

Provenance

Trevor Fairbrother and John T. Kirk, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 2011.

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