Fireplace Mantle with Smoking Embers
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778
mid-18th century
Etching on paper
Frame: 16 × 20 3/4 in. (40.6 × 52.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Trevor Fairbrother and John T. Kirk
2011.63.37
Portfolio / Series Title
Diverse maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Label
While better known for his real and imagined scenes of Rome, Giovanni Battista Piranesi also applied his familiarity with Antiquity to a series of prints that present fanciful decorations for fireplaces and furniture. The present design includes satyr heads, florets, and acanthus leaves, all elements taken from classical sculpture and repeated and reinterpreted throughout the early modern period.
From the 2024 exhibition Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400–1750, curated by Elizabeth Rice Mattison, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programming and Curator of European Art, and Ashley B. Offill, Curator of Collections
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.
Provenance
Trevor Fairbrother and John T. Kirk, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 2011.
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