Veduta interna della Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano (View of the interior of the Bascilica of St. Peter's in the Vatican), from Le Magnificenze di Roma: Vedute di Roma
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778
1748
Etching on heavy laid paper
Plate: 16 1/8 × 23 7/16 in. (41 × 59.6 cm)
Sheet: 20 13/16 × 27 1/2 in. (52.9 × 69.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.977.24.5
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed in plate, lower left: Piranesi fecit Inscribed, in plate, lower center: Veduta interna della Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano Watermark: fleur-de-lis in circle [Hind 1]
Course History
SART 65, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2012
SART 65, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2013
SART 65, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2014
ARTH 13, Rome: The Eternal City, Nicola Camerlenghi, Summer 2014
SART 65, 66, 68, Architecture I, II, III, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2015
REL 30.1, Sacred Cities: Rome, Christopher MacEvitt, Winter 2019
SART 65, Architecture 1, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2020
SART 65.01, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2021
SART 65, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2022
ARTH 17.01, Rome, the Eternal City, Nicolas Camerlenghi, Summer 2022
SART 65.01, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Fall 2022
Studio Art 65.01, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2023
Exhibition History
Architecture and Memory in Europe, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 15, 2022-February 11, 2024.
Etchings by Piranesi, Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, October 15-November 11, 1978.
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.
St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, November 15-December 15, 1978.
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. 70-71, no. 98.
Catalogue Raisonne
Hind 4 I/VI; Focillon 788
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