Veduta della Piazza del Popolo (View of the Piazza del Popolo), from Le Magnificenze di Roma: Vedute di Roma

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in plate, lower center: Veduta della Piazza del Popolo; Inscribed, in plate, lower left: 1. Chiesa di S. M. de Miracoli / 2. Chiesa di S. M. di Monte Santo / 3. Strada del Corso, che conduce al Palazzo di Venezia; Inscribed, in plate, lower right: 4. Strada, che conduce a Piazza di Spagna / 5. Strada che conduce di Ripetta / 6. Guglia Egiziaca inalzala da Sisto V; Watermark: fleur-de-lis in circle [Hind 1]

Course History

ARTH 17, Italian Renaissance Architecture: Issues and Approaches, Lauren Jacobi, Winter 2013

REL 30, Sacred Cities: Rome, Christopher MacEvitt, Spring 2013

REL 30, Sacred Cities: Rome, Christopher MacEvitt, Spring 2013

CLST 7, The Idea of Rome, Margaret Williamson, Spring 2012

REL 30.1, Sacred Cities: Rome, Christopher MacEvitt, Winter 2019

COCO 26, What's In Your Toolbox?, Moktar Bouba and Tania Convertini, Fall 2021

Exhibition History

Etchings by Piranesi, Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Alentown, Pennsylvania, October 15-November 11, 1978.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Grandeur and Fantasy: Visions and Views of Rome, Grinnell College, Faulconer Gallery, Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, January 22 - February 25, 2007, no.81.

St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, November 15-December 15, 1978.

Two Views of Italy: Master Prints by Canaletto and Piranesi, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 11-September 3, 1995, no.39.

Publication History

Richard Rand and John Varriano, Two Views of Italy: Master Prints by Canaletto and Piranesi, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1995, no. 39, fig. 17.

Thomas Agran, Judith Barrett, et.al., Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Grandeur and Fantasy: Visions and Views of Rome, Grinnell, Iowa: Grinnell College, Faulconer Gallery, Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, 2007, ill. page 54, cat no.81

Catalogue Raisonne

Focillon 794; Hind 14 i/vii

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