Spaccato Interno della Basilica di S. Paolo fuori delle Mura (S. Paolo fuori le Mura), from Le Magnificenze di Roma: Vedute di Roma
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778
1748
Etching on heavy laid paper
Plate: 16 5/16 × 23 15/16 in. (41.4 × 60.8 cm)
Sheet: 20 13/16 × 27 5/16 in. (52.9 × 69.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.977.24.7
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in plate, lower right : Piranesi fecit Inscribed, in plate, across bottom: Spaccato interno della Basilica di S. Paolo fuori delle Mura, eretta da Costantino Magno, divisa in cinque Navate co'sua Crociata. Ottanta Colonne di marmo greco, venato di vario colore quivi trasportate / dal Sepolcro di Adriano Imperatore, sostentano le Navate variando di grandezza, e lavoro le lateralida quelle della Navata di mezzo. Altre Colonne dieci di Granito sono sparse per la Crociata; intorno alla quale, come ancora intorno la Navata di mezzo / cronologicamente disposti si veggono li Ritratti di tutti i Sommi Pontefici Romanicon altre Pitture antiche gia quasi consumate dal tempo. Il Pavimento della Navate e formato di rotti pezzi di marmo, levati dalle Rovine di altri Edificii antichi. Watermark: fleur-de-lis in circle [Hind 1] Blindstamp, upper right: Dartmouth College Library
Exhibition History
Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Grandeur and Fantasy: Visions and Views of Rome, Grinnell College, Faulconer Gallery, Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, January 22 - February 25, 2007, no.79.
Publication History
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. 100.
Thomas Agran, Judith Barrett, et.al., Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Grandeur and Fantasy: Visions and Views of Rome, Grinnell, Iowa: Grinnell College, Faulconer Gallery, Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, 2007, listed, page 54 cat no.79.
Catalogue Raisonne
Focillon 792; Hind 7 i/vii
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