Veduta della Basilica e Piazza di S. Pietro in Vaticano (View of the Basilica and Piazza of St. Peter in the Vatican), from Le Magnificenze di Roma: Vedute di Roma
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778
1747-1748
Etching on heavy laid paper
1/7
Plate: 15 3/4 × 21 in. (40 × 53.4 cm)
Sheet: 20 13/16 × 27 9/16 in. (52.8 × 70 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.977.24.6
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in plate, lower right: Piranesi del. scol.; inscribed, in plate, lower left : 1. Palazzo Pontiscio fabricato da Sisto V. / 2. Loggie di Giulio II. architettura di Bramante Lazzari, e / dipinte da Rafaelle d'Urbino; Inscribed, in plate, lower right : 3. Gulia cretta da Sisto V. / 4. Vasea tutta di un pezzo di granito Orientale / Piranesi del. scol.; Inscribed, in plate, lower center: Veduta della Basilica e Piazza di S. Pietro in Vaticano; Watermark: fleur-de-lis in circle [Hind 1]
Course History
ARTH 17, Italian Renaissance Architecture: Issues and Approaches, Lauren Jacobi, Winter 2013
PHIL 23, Philosophy of Art, John Kulvicki, Winter 2013
SART 65, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2012
SART 65, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2013
CLST 7, The Idea of Rome, Margaret Williamson, Spring 2012
REL 60, Reformations: Protestant and Catholic, Catherine Randall, Fall 2013
SART 65, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2014
WRIT 5, Poor Taste, William Boyer, Winter 2014
SART 65, 66, 68, Architecture I, II, III, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2015
SART 65, Architecture 1, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2020
SART 65.01, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2021
ARTH 27.03, Building Boom: Architecture and Urbanism in Early Modern Italy, Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, Fall 2021
SART 65, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2022
SART 65.01, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Fall 2022
Studio Art 65.01, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2023
Exhibition History
Etchings by Piranesi, Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, October 15-November 11, 1978.
European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 30, 2008-March 8, 2009.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New HampshireSeptember 27, 2003-February 8, 2004.
Selections from the Permanent Collection: An Introduction to the History of Art From the Year 1500 to the Present, Art 2, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 11-March 7, 1993.
St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, November 15-December 15, 1978.
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.35.
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. 35, fig. 25.
L. Nichols, Piranesi at Dartmouth: Etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in the Dartmouth College Collections, Hanover, NH: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1976, p. 71, no. 99.
T. Barton Thurber, European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, pp. 160-161, ill. p.160, no. 95.
Catalogue Raisonne
Focillon 787; Hind 3 i/vii
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