Veduta del Tempio della Fortuna virile (View of the Temple of Fortuna Virilis), from Le Magnificenze di Roma: Vedute di Roma
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778
published 1752
Etching on heavy laid paper
Plate: 14 7/8 × 23 1/16 in. (37.8 × 58.6 cm)
Sheet: 20 13/16 × 27 5/16 in. (52.8 × 69.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.977.24.25
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in plate, lower right: Piranesi Architetto fec.; Inscribed, in plate, lower center: Veduta del Tempio della Fortuna virile; Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Oggi S. Maria Egizziaca degli Armeni. 1. Residui d'un'antica / Fabrica chiamata dal Volgo la Casa di Pilato. 2. Ospizio della / Nazione Armena. 3. Tempio di Vesta: oggi S. Maria del Sole, vicino; Inscribed, in plate, lower right: a questo Tempio sbocca nel Tevere la Cloaca massima / 4. S. Maria in Cosmedin detta la Scola Greca. 5. Monte Aventino, / sotto al quale si vedono i vestigj della spelonca di Cacco
Course History
REL 30, Sacred Cities: Rome, Christopher MacEvitt, Spring 2013
REL 30, Sacred Cities: Rome, Christopher MacEvitt, Spring 2013
REL 30.1, Sacred Cities: Rome, Christopher MacEvitt, Winter 2019
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.
Catalogue Raisonne
Focillon 817; Hind 46 i/vii
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