Gezichten op Rome

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Gezicht in de Tempio della Tosse bij Tivoli. Titel op blok midden onder.

Art Historical Context

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, an 18th-century Italian artist and architect, captivates us with *Gezichten op Rome* (Views of Rome), monumental series of etchings produced between 1748 and1778. This particular print, measuring 629 × 465 mm, depicts a *Gezicht in de Tempio della Tosse bij Tivoli*—a evocative view inside the ancient Temple of the Cough near Tivoli, the title inscribed on a central block below. Piranesi's work emerged during the Grand Tour era, when European elites traveled to Italy to study classical antiquity, fueling a neoclassical revival across art and architecture. As a maste...

About the Artist

Giovanni Battista Piranesi · 1720–1778

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) was an Italian printmaker, architect, and antiquarian whose visionary etchings of Rome and imaginary prisons revolutionized architectural representation and profoundly influenced both Neoclassicism and Romanticism. Piranesi stands as one of the most important printmakers of the eighteenth century, fundamentally shaping European perceptions of ancient Rome an...