View of the Principal Elevation of the Column of Trajan (Veduta del prospetto principale della Colonna Trajana)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778
about 1774
Etching on paper
Sheet: 126 1/4 × 30 3/8 in. (320.7 × 77.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.967.130.3
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Course History
ARTH 17, Italian Renaissance Architecture: Issues and Approaches, Lauren Jacobi, Winter 2013
ENGS 2, Integrated Design: Engineering, Architecture, and Building Technology, Jack Wilson, Winter 2012
CLST 7, The Idea of Rome, Margaret Williamson, Spring 2012
ARTH 13, Rome: The Eternal City, Nicola Camerlenghi, Summer 2014
REL 30.1, Sacred Cities: Rome, Christopher MacEvitt, Winter 2019
ARTH 12.05, Roman Art, Ada Cohen, Winter 2022
ARTH 17.01, Rome, the Eternal City, Nicolas Camerlenghi, Summer 2022
Exhibition History
Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 7-September 9, 2001.
Critical Faculties: Teaching with the Hood's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 15-March 13, 2005.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 19-October 24, 2007.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 26, 2003-January 25, 2004.
Publication History
T. Barton Thurber, "Survival and Revival of the Classical Tradition: Antiquity in Rome from the Baroque Era to the Age of Enlightenment." In T. Barton Thurber and Adrian W.B. Randolph, Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2001, pp. 59-61, ill. p. 60, detail p. 61, listed p.72.
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