Frontispiece with Statue of Minerva Amidst Ruins
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778
1748
Etching on heavy laid paper
Plate: 19 13/16 × 25 1/8 in. (50.4 × 63.8 cm)
Sheet: 20 13/16 × 27 7/16 in. (52.8 × 69.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.977.24.4
Portfolio / Series Title
Vedute di Roma
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in plate, lower right: Piranesi invento: incise in Roma; Inscribed in plate, lower right (on sarcophagus end) : PIRANESI INVI. INCI. ; Watermark: fleur-de-lis in circle [Hind 1]
Course History
History 42.01, Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies 22.01, Gender & European Society, Patrick Meehan, Spring 2024
History 96.39, Saints and Relics, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Spring 2024
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Noemi Perego, Spring 2024
Italian 11.01, Intensive Italian, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024
Italian 3.01, Introductory Italian III, Tania Convertini, Spring 2024
Italian 3.02, Introductory Italian III, Giorgio Alberti, Spring 2024
Exhibition History
Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400–1750, Citrin Family Gallery and Engles Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 23, 2024–March 22, 2025.
Piranesi at Dartmouth: Etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in the Dartmouth College Collections, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 4-August 22, 1976.
Publication History
L. Nichols, Piranesi at Dartmouth: Etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in the Dartmouth College Collections, Hanover, NH: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1976, p. 70, no. 97.
Published References
Andrew Robison, Piranesi-Early Architectural Fantasies: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Etchings, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1986, 2 A/G. ; Edgar Peters Bowron and Joseph J. Rishel, Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000, p. 578, no. 422.: Nicholas Penny, Piranesi, London: Oresko Books Ltd., 1978, p. 36, no. 17.
Catalogue Raisonne
Focillon 786; Hind 2 i/vii
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