Updated 10 January 2023
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<The Views of Rome>: The Forum Romanus, or Campo Vaccino, with the Colosseum in the Distance
Date | 1772 |
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Materials and Techniques | etching and engraving |
Size(cm) | 47.3 x 70.7 (plate); 57.8 x 75.5 (paper) |
Inscriptions | Signed: Cavalier Piranesi del. e inc.; Title: Veduta di Campo Vaccino; Legend: 1. Colonne del Tempio detto di Giove Statore.; 2. Chiesa di Santa Maria Liberatrice piantata / sul sito dove anticamente era il- / tempio di Vesta.; 3. Vestigi del palazzo de'Cesari sul Palatino.; 4. Orti Farnesiani.; 5. Archo di Tito.; 6. Chiesa di S. a Francesca Romana.; 7. Colosseo.; 8. Avanzi del Tablino della Casa / Aurea di Nerone volgarment / detti e Tempio ella Pace.; 9. Tempio de Romolo e Remo in og- / gi Chiesa de SS. Cosmo e Damiano.; 10. Tempio di Antonino e Faustina.; 11. Tazza antica di granito di un sol pezzo / situata nel luogo dove volta era il/ lago Curzio. |
Standard ref. | Focillon 748; Hind100, I/IV ; Rome Recorded100; Wilton-Ely233. |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.1997-0033 |
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. 23
- 2007
- Gods and Nature: The Essence of European Art from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Himeji City Museum of Art, 4 November 2007 - 2 December 2007, cat. no. 38-3
- 2007
- Gods and Nature: The Essence of European Art from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, 11 December 2007 - 3 February 2008, cat. no. 38-3
- 2018
- [Prints and Drawings Exhibition] Views of Rome: Transition in Images and Media, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Prints and Drawings Gallery, 16 October 2018 - 0 January 2019, cat. no. 31
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.