Veduta di Campo Vaccino (View of the Campo Vaccino [Temple of Vespasian] with the Colosseum in the Distance), from Le Magnificenze di Roma: Vedute di Roma
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778
published 1757
Etching on heavy laid paper
1/6
Plate: 16 1/8 × 21 1/2 in. (41 × 54.6 cm)
Sheet: 20 13/16 × 27 1/4 in. (52.9 × 69.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.977.24.19
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Course History
ARTH 17, Italian Renaissance Architecture: Issues and Approaches, Lauren Jacobi, Winter 2013
CLST 7, The Idea of Rome, Margaret Williamson, Spring 2012
REL 30.1, Sacred Cities: Rome, Christopher MacEvitt, Winter 2019
ARTH 27.03, Building Boom: Architecture and Urbanism in Early Modern Italy, Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, Fall 2021
ARTH 12.05, Roman Art, Ada Cohen, Winter 2022
Exhibition History
Ancient Profiles: Sculpture, Prints, and Coins from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 1, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 1-December 17, 1997.
Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, July 7-September 9, 2001.
Two Views of Italy: Master Prints by Canaletto and Piranesi, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 11-September 3, 1995, no.42.
Publication History
Richard Rand and John Varriano, Two Views of Italy: Master Prints by Canaletto and Piranesi, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1995, no. 42, fig. 27.
T. Barton Thurber, "Survival and Revival of the Classical Tradition: Antiquity in Rome from the Baroque Era to the Age of Enlightenment." In T. Barton Thurber and Adrian W.B. Randolph, Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2001, pp. 63-65, ill. p. 64-65, fig. 25, listed p.71.
Catalogue Raisonne
Focillon 803; Hind 40 i/vi
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