GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

View of the Fountainhead of the Acqua Felice...., from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views), ca. 1751

Etching; first state of five (Hind)

53.8 × 76.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-438331

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

View of the Fountainhead of the Acqua Paola on Monte Aureo, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views), ca. 1751

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47.8 × 69.6 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-396095

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Fontana dell'Aqua Giulia (Vedute dell avanzo del Castello del'Aqua Giulia), ca. 1753

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-385648

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The smaller harbor, called the Porto di Ripetta (Veduta del Porto di Ripetta), ca. 1753

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-388024

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

View of the Palazzo Odeschali, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views), ca. 1753

Etching; before first state of five (Hind)

49 × 69.8 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-440656

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

View of the Port of Ripa Grande, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views), ca. 1753

Etching; first state of six (Hind)

53.5 × 76.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-439284

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Bridge and Castel S. Angelo (Veduta del Ponte e Castello Sant'Angelo, ca. 1754

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-384402

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Pyramid of Caius Cestius, with the Porta S. Paolo and adjoining road (Veduta del Sepolcro di Cajo Cestio), from "Vedute di Roma", ca. 1755

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-384405

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Plan of Rome..., from "Le Antichità Romane" (Roman Antiquities), ca. 1756

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48.5 × 69.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-382912

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

S. Constanza (erroneously callled Temple of Bacchus) (Veduta interna del Sepolcro di S. Constanza, fabbricato da Costantino Magno, ed erroneamente detto il Tempio di Bacco, inoggi Chiesa della medisme Santa), from "Vedute di Roma", ca. 1756

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-398735

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Arch of Septimius Severus (Arco di Severo, e Caracalla), ca. 1756

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11.5 × 27.2 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-322574

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Pyramid of Gaius Cestius, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views), ca. 1756

Etching; first state of three (Hind)

52.5 × 70 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-441047

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Temple of Vespasian and Titus (Veduta del Tempio di Giove Tonante), ca. 1756

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-367442

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Temple of Vespian (Veduta del Tempio di giove Tonante), ca. 1756

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-352142

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

View of the Mausoleum of the Emperor Hadrian (now called Castel S. Angelo) from the rear, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views), ca. 1756

Etching, undescribed first state with address of Bouchard

50.8 × 65 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-195505

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Basilica of Constantine (Veduta degli avanzi della Casa aurea di Nerone, detti volgarmente il Tempio della Pace), from "Vedute di Roma", ca. 1757

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-398740

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Theatre of Marcellus (Teatro di Marcello), from "Vedute di Roma", ca. 1757

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-375712

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The so-called Temple of Fortuna Virilis (now Church of S. Maria Egizziaca) (Veduta del Tempio della Fortuna Virile), ca. 1758

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-385627

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

View of the Temple of Cybele in the Piazza of the Bocca della Verità (Veduta del Tempio di Cibele a Piazza della Bocca della Verità), ca. 1758

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-404818

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Arch of Septimius Severus, with the Church of S. Martina on the right (Arco di Settimio Severo), from "Vedute di Roma", ca. 1759

Etching; first state

37.2 × 57.4 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-342624

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Temple of Venus and Roma (erroneously called Temple of Sol and Luna) (Veduta degli avanzi di due triclini che appartenevano alla Casa aurea di Nerone), from "Vedute di Roma", ca. 1759

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-398737

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Arch of Titus (Veduta dell'Arco di Tito), ca. 1760

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40.5 × 61.8 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-367440

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

View of the Palazzo della Consulta on the Quirinal housing the Papal Secreteriat, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views), ca. 1760–78

Etching; first state of six (Hind)

48.5 × 70 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-441305

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

View of the Temple of the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views), ca. 1761

Etching; first state of five (Hind)

53.5 × 75.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-441492

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The tomb of Caecilia Metella, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views), ca. 1762

Etching; first state of five (Hind)

70.5 × 53 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-440655

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Two churches near Trajan's column, S. Maria di Loreto and Santissimo Nome di Maria (Veduta delle due chiesa, l'una detta della Madonna di Loreto, l'altra del nome di Maria, presso la Colonna Trajana), ca. 1762

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-395822

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The so-called Temple of Salus, on the road to Albano (Tempio antico volgarmente detto della Salute), ca. 1763

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-385626

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

A view of part of the intended Bridge at Blackfriars, London, ca. 1764

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41.6 × 62.2 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-369958

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

A view of part of the intended Bridge at Blackfriars, London, ca. 1764

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-370706

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The so-called Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli. Interior with two figures in the opening of an arch above. (Veduta interna della Villa di Mecenate), ca. 1764

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-388026

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Remains of a covered portico, or a cryptoporticus, in a villa of Domitian, five miles outside Rome on the Frascati road, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views), ca. 1766

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52.5 × 67.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-441048

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Remains of a covered portico, or a cryptoportiucus, in a villa of Domitian, five miles outside Rome on the Frascati road, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views), ca. 1766

Etching; second state of four (Hind)

52.5 × 73.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-441307

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The so-called Grotto of Egeria (Veduta della fonte e delle spelonche d'Egeria fuor della Porta Capena), ca. 1766

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40.6 × 69.2 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-385622

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The so-called Temple of Bacchus, now the Church of S. Urban, interior (Veduta interna dell antico Tempio di Bacco, or. di S. Urbano), ca. 1767

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42.2 × 60.3 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-380770

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Avanzi del Tempio detto di Apollo nella Villa Adriana vicino a Tivoli (Hadrian's Villa. Remains of the Smaller Palace [Formerly called the Temple of Apollo]), ca. 1768

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47.3 × 61.9 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-380768

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

St. Giovanni in Laterano, Interior, from "Vedute di Roma" (Views of Rome), ca. 1768

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-372589

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

A sedan chair, a coach, a commode, a side table and two clocks (Deux ch. à porteurs v. de côté, une commode, une console, deux pedules, un meuble indét), from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi...(Different Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces and all other parts of…, ca. 1769

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55 × 38.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-346175

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Chimneypiece in the Egyptian style, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini (...) (Different Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces and all other parts of houses), ca. 1769

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40 × 54.7 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-433963

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Chimneypiece in the Egyptian style: Groups of three female nudes at the base of each jamb, surmounted by larger kneeling figures), from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi...(Different Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces and all other parts of houses), ca. 1769

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38 × 55 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-432832

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Chimneypiece in the Egyptian style: Two mummies in profile on the left and two figures brearing obelisks on the right (Ch. à l'ègyptienne), from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi...(Different Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces and all other parts of houses), ca. 1769

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40 × 54.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-432687

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Chimneypiece: Affronted griffons on the lintel and candelabra on the jambs (Ch. accompagnée de son plan et décorée d'une frise de griffons), from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi...(Different Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces and all other parts of houses), ca. 1769

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41 × 54.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-297678

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Chimneypiece: Architrave decorated with a Greek key motif and a circular fireback with figures of the zodiac (Ch. décorée d'une grecque), from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi...(Different Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces and all other parts of houses), ca. 1769

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45 × 54 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-297686

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Chimneypiece: Frieze of trophies and winged Victories on the lintel, with cornucopias to either side of the jambs decorated with varied reliefs (Ch. décorée d'une grecque), from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi...(Different Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces and…, ca. 1769

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39.5 × 55 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-433369

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Hadrian's Villa: The Canopus (Avanzi del Tempio Dio Canopo nella Villa Adriana in Tivoli), ca. 1769

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-403723

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Miscellaneous furniture including two sedan chairs, a side table and a commode (Deux ch. à porteurs v. de côté, console, flambeau.), from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi...(Different Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces and all other parts of houses), ca. 1769

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55 × 40 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-432688

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

View of the Piazza di monte Cavallo, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views), ca. 1773

Etching; first state of four (Hind)

53.6 × 76.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-441046

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Capitol and the steps of S. Maria in Aracoeli (Veduta del Romano Camipidoglio con scalinata che va alla chiesa d'Araceli), ca. 1775

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-404820

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Forum Romanum, or Campo Vaccino, from the Capitol, with the Arch of Septimius in the foreground left, Temple of Vespian right, and the Colosseum in the distance (Veduta di Campo Vaccino), ca. 1775

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-404822