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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Roman arches at the church of SS Giovanni e Paolo (1757)
etching
38.5 × 60.4 cm (image) 40.6 × 61.3 cm (plate) 53.2 × 71.9 cm (sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased from Mrs J Walton, 1964
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Roman arches at the church of SS Giovanni e Paolo
(1757)
from the Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome) series
Medium
etching
Measurements
38.5 × 60.4 cm (image) 40.6 × 61.3 cm (plate) 53.2 × 71.9 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased from Mrs J Walton, 1964
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Rome, Italy
Catalogue/s Raisonné
F804; H43 (iv)/vi; C787; Robinson 43; Wilton-Ely 160
Edition
posthumous 19th century edition
Inscription
printed in ink l.l: VEDUTA DEL PIANO SUPERIORE DEL SERRAGLIO DELLE FIERE FABBRICATO DA DMONZIANO A USO DELL’ANTITEATRO FLAVIO, E VOLGARMENTE DETTO LA CURIA OSTILLA
printed in ink l.l.: il primo piano di questa gran fabbrica rimane interrato nelle rovine, che inoggi uguagliano il piano di Roma, e dagli scavifattivi, si è trovato parimente compsto di grossi macigni di travertino. A. Segni, ove si appoggiavamo I muri di tavolozza che/ serravano gli arch. B. Muri de tempi bassi. Sopra di questi Archi e fabbricato il Campanile e Convento de Padri della Missiona de SS. Giovanni, e Paolo.
printed in ink l.r.: Piranesi Architetto fec
Accession Number
1453-5
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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Subjects (general)
Architecture Interiors
Subjects (specific)
abandoned buildings arches basilicas (works by form) black-and-white (colours) building stone Italy (nation) Rome (inhabited place) rubble
Movements
Neoclassicism