Arco di Settimio Severo (Arch of Septimius Severus), from Le Magnificenze di Roma: Vedute di Roma
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778
1759
Etching on heavy laid paper
Plate: 14 15/16 × 23 1/4 in. (37.9 × 59.1 cm)
Sheet: 20 13/16 × 27 1/2 in. (52.9 × 69.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.977.24.21
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in plate, lower right: Piranesi Architetto fec.; Inscribed, in plate, lower center: Arco di Settimio Severo; Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Erario antico, o come altri Tempio di Saturno, oggi S. Adriano. 2. S. Martina / architettata da Pietro da Cortona. Chiesa dell' Academia del Disegno detta di S. Luca. 3. L'an- / tico Carcere mamertino, nel quale sono stati posti i SS. Pietro e Paolo. Sopra questo si vede eretta la Chiesa di S. Giuseppe. 4. Salita che porta al Campidoglio. 5. Abitazione del Senatore Romano; Inscribed, in plate, lower center: Nelmezzo diquesto passava l'antica Via sacra che portava; Trionf. ti. in Campid. o; Inscribed, in plate, lower right: 6. Chiesa dell'Araceli fabricata sopra i fondamenti del Tempio di Giove Capito lino. / 7. Colonna rimasta in piedi creduta del Ponte, che fecce fare l'Imperatore Caligola per passare / dal Palatino al Campidoglio; Watermark: fleur-de-lis in circle [Hind 1]
Course History
REL 30, Sacred Cities: Rome, Christopher MacEvitt, Spring 2013
REL 30, Sacred Cities: Rome, Christopher MacEvitt, Spring 2013
Exhibition History
Introduction to the History of Art II, 1500 to present, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ArtH2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 24-March 14, 2004.
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.44.
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. 44.
Catalogue Raisonne
Focillon 809; Hind 54 i/vi
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