Updated 04 September 2023
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<The Views of Rome>: The So-Called Temple of Minerva Medica
Date | ca. 1764 |
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Materials and Techniques | etching and engraving |
Size(cm) | 46.4 x 70.0 (plate); 57.8 x 75.5 (paper) |
Inscriptions | Title: Veduta del Tempio ottangolare di Minerva Medica; Legend: A. Egli era interiormente ornato di marmi,; B. e di musaici bianchi, ed esteriormente / coprto di stucco.; C. Rovine d'altro edifizio congiunto posteriormente col Tempio. |
Standard ref. | Focillon 778; Hind 74, I/IV; Rome Recorded 73; Wilton-Ely 207. |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.1997-0006 |
Exhibition History
- 2005
- [Prints and Drawings Exhibition] Views of Rome: Piranesi's Vision, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 18 October 2005 - 11 December 2005, cat. no. 17
- 2009
- Iconomorphosis: Selected Graphics from the NMWA Collection, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 7 July 2009 - 16 August 2009, cat. no. 74
- 2018
- Beyond the End: Ruins in Art History, The Shoto Museum of Art, 8 December 2018 - 31 January 2019, cat. no. 9
Bibliography
- 1970
- Robison, Andrew. The 'Vedute di Roma' of Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Notes towards a Revision of Hind's Catalogue. Nouvelles de l'estampe. no. 4, 1970, pp. 180-197.
- 1978
- Wilton-Ely, John. The Mind and Art of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. London, Thames and Hudson, 1978, pp. 25-44, 297, pl. 1-137.
- 1983
- Robison, Andrew. "Dating Piranesi's Early 'Vedute di Roma'". Piranesi tra Venezia e l'Europa. Bettagno, Alessandro, ed. Venezia, 13 - 15 October 1978, Istituto di Storia dell'Arte della Fondazione Giorgio Cini. Florence, Olschki, 1983, pp. 11-33.
- 1986
- Robison, Andrew. "Watermarks". Piranesi: Early Architectural Fantasies, a Catalogue Raisonné of the Etchings. Washington D. C., 1986, pp. 215-239.
- 1989
- Marini, Maurizio. Le vedute di Roma di Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Roma, Newton Compton, 1989
- 1999
- Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 32 (April 1997-March 1998), 1999, List of New Acquisitions. pp. 19-22.
- 2018
- Beyond the End: Ruins in Art History(exh. cat.). The Shoto Museum of Art, ed. Tokyo, The Shoto Museum of Art, 2018, cat. no. 9, col. repr.