Veduta di Piazza Navona sopra le rovine del Circo Agonale (View of the Piazza Navona on the ruins of the Circus Agonalis), from Le Magnificenze di Roma: Vedute di Roma
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778
1751
Etching on heavy laid paper
Plate: 16 1/8 × 21 1/2 in. (41 × 54.6 cm)
Sheet: 20 13/16 × 27 3/8 in. (52.8 × 69.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.977.24.20
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in plate, lower right: Piranesi del sc.; Inscribed, in plate, lower center: Veduta di Piazza Navona sopra le rovine del Circo Agonale; Inscribed, in plate, lower right: 1. S. Agnese / 2. Palazzo Panfili / 3. Fontana con Guglia. Egiziaca archt. di Bernini; Inscribed, in plate, lower right: 4. S Giacomo de Spagnoli / Fontana Architettura di Michelangelo; Watermark: fleur-de-lis in circle [Hind 1]
Exhibition History
The Nature of Empire, Barrows Print Room, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 10-August 19, 1984.
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.20.
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. 43.
Catalogue Raisonne
Focillon 806; Hind 16 ii/vi
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