Updated 10 January 2023
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<The Views of Rome>: St. Peter's, with Piazza and Colonnades, Bird's-Eye view.
Date | 1775 |
---|---|
Materials and Techniques | etching and engraving |
Size(cm) | 47.6 x 71.0 (plate); 57.8 x 75.5 (paper) |
Inscriptions | Signed: Cavaliere Piranesi delin. ed inc; Title: Veduta dell' insigne Basilica Vaticano coll' ampio Portico, e Piazza adjacente; Legend: 1. Palazzo Apostolico nel Vaticano.; 2. Logge un pitture di Rafaele.; 3. Mura che circondano la Citta di Roma.; 4. Corridajo che serve di passagio dal Vaticano a Castel S. Angelo.; 5. Palazzo della Sacre Inquisizione. |
Standard ref. | Focillon 720; Hind120, I/III ; Rome Recorded120; Wilton-Ely 253. |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.1997-0053 |
Exhibition History
- 2014
- The Rings from The Hashimoto Collection of The National Museum of Western Art, The National Museum of Western Art, 8 July 2014 - 15 September 2014, cat. no. 264
- 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 - 20 January 2019, cat. no. 17
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.