Veduta della Curia Ostilia (View of the Curia Ostilia) [The Temple of Claudius at the Church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo], from Le Magnificenze di Roma: Vedute di Roma
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778
published 1752
Etching on heavy laid paper
Plate: 15 15/16 × 23 7/8 in. (40.5 × 60.6 cm)
Sheet: 20 13/16 × 27 11/16 in. (52.9 × 70.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.977.24.36
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 della Curia Ostilia ; lower left: Altri vogliono che sia parte della Reggia di Tullo Ostilio terzo Re di Roma / Questa Fabrica pero per la sua magnifica so dezza dimostra essere state fatta; lower right: piuttosto al tempo de'Cesari che di alcun Re. Sopra di questi Archi di grossi / travertini e fabricato il Campanile e Convento de'Padri della missione de 'SS. Gio.e Paolo. Watermark: [fleur-de-lis in circle, Hind 1]
Exhibition History
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.54.
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. 54, fig. 29.
Catalogue Raisonne
Focillon 804; Hind 43 i/vi
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