Veduta del Campidoglio di Fianco (The Capitol), from Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)
1775
18th Century
15 3/4 x 27 1/8 in. (40 x 68.9 cm)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi,
Italian,
(1720–1778)
Object Type:
PRINTS
Creation Place:
Europe, Italy
Medium and Support:
Etching
Credit Line:
Gift of Thomas Wistar Jr.
Accession Number:
78-G-802
The view shows the Capitol, the administrative center of ancient and modern Rome. The Renaissance architecture of Michelangelo’s Palazzo dei Conservatori fills the sheet in the background. In the foreground, stretching across the width of the sheet, are important Roman antiquities. They are arranged symmetrically on each side of the head of the stairs leading up to the Capitoline Hill. The famous classical statues of the two Dioscuri with their horses tower over the humans in the foreground.
Current Location:
In Storage
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