Veduta dell'Atrio del Portico di Ottavia (View of the Atrium of the Portico of Octavia), from Le Magnificenze di Roma: Vedute di Roma
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778
published 1752
Etching on heavy laid paper
2/7
Plate: 15 1/2 × 23 5/16 in. (39.4 × 59.2 cm)
Sheet: 20 13/16 × 28 1/16 in. (52.8 × 71.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.977.24.38
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 dell'Atrio del Portico di Ottavia; lower left: 1. S. Angelo in (?) Pescaria. 2. Interno dell'Atrio / 3. Tavaloni di marmo, che coprivano l'Atrio, sopra; lower right: cadaun de'quali si scorge in piede un pezzo di marmo / intagliato di un'Aquila in basso rilevo. 4. Pitture moderne. Watermark: [fleur-de-lis in circle, Hind 1]
Course History
REL 30.1, Sacred Cities: Rome, Christopher MacEvitt, Winter 2019
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.56.
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. 56.
Catalogue Raisonne
Focillon 815; Hind 58 ii/vii
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