Tempio di Bacco (Temple of Bacchus), from Le Magnificenze di Roma: Vedute di Roma
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778
published 1751
Etching on heavy laid paper
Plate: 16 3/8 × 21 5/8 in. (41.6 × 54.9 cm)
Sheet: 20 13/16 × 27 5/16 in. (52.8 × 69.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.977.24.29
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: TEMPIO DI BACCO; Inscribed, in plate lower left: Oggi S. Costanza fuori delle Mura. 1. Colonne no. 24 di Gra- / nito, che reggono il Tempio. 2. Mosaici antichi. 3. Finestre; Inscribed, in plate, lower right: antiche. 4. Candelieri antichi di marmo. 5. Pitture moderne. 6. Urna / di Porfido tutta d'un pezzo lunga pal. ll. alta. p.5.10. larga 6.9. Il coperchio alto 3.2.; Watermark: fleur-de-lis in circle [Hind 1]
Exhibition History
Etchings by Piranesi, Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, October 15-November 11, 1978.
St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, November 15-December 15, 1978.
Catalogue Raisonne
Focillon 811; Hind 37 i/vi
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