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Veduta della Basilica di S. Paolo fuor della mura (St. Paul's Outside the Walls), from Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)

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Veduta della Basilica di S. Paolo fuor della mura (St. Paul's Outside the Walls), from Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)

1748
18th Century
16 x 24 1/4 in. (40.6 x 61.6 cm)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, (1720–1778)

Object Type: PRINTS
Creation Place: Europe, Italy
Medium and Support: Etching, engraving
Accession Number: 72-G-366
See the interpretive label written by Daniel Luchay, M.A., M.S., Adjunct Professor, Department of Mathematics, for the exhibition Teaching and Learning in the Art Museum: La Salle University Faculty Selections in the online exhibition HERE.


After his execution, St. Paul was buried in a cemetery on the site of this church, St. Paul’s outside the city walls. Before the church was built, a shrine marked the spot where St. Paul died and to which many early Christians came to venerate the Apostle. The first church was built on the site by Emperor Constantine and was consecrated in 324. Much of the structure seen in this print dates much later, however, to architectural interventions undertaken by popes in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Current Location: In Storage

Exhibitions


- Teaching and Learning in the Art Museum: La Salle University Faculty Selections, La Salle University Art Museum, September 10 - December 14, 2018.
See the online exhibition HERE: http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/faculty_selections_2018/.

- Piranesi’s Views of Rome
, curated by Madeleine Viljoen, La Salle University Art Museum, June 22-September 1, 2007.

- Piranesi’s Roman Basilicas: A Virtual Pilgrimage, La Salle University Art Museum, November 22, 1999 – January 30, 2000.

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