Tempio di Venere appresso il Circo Apollinare negl'Orti di Salussio vicino all'antica Porta Salara (Temple of Venus next to the Circus of Apollonius in the Gardens of Sallust near the Ancient Porta Salaria), from Le Magnificenze di Roma: Raccolte di varie vedute di Roma (The Magnificence of Rome: Collection of Various Views of Rome)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778
published 1752
Etching on heavy laid paper
Plate: 5 3/16 × 7 1/8 in. (13.2 × 18.1 cm)
Sheet: 20 3/4 × 29 7/16 in. (52.7 × 74.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.977.24.54D
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed in plate, lower right: Piranesi inc. Inscribed in plate, lower left to lower right: Tempio di Venere appresso il Circo Apollinare negl'Orti di Salussio vicino all'antica / Porta Salara Watermark: [fleur-de-lis in circle; similar to Hind 1]
Published References
L. Nichols, Piranesi at Dartmouth: Etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in the Dartmouth College Collections, Hanover, NH: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1976, p. 40-1, no. 33d.
Catalogue Raisonne
Focillon, 89
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