Piazza e Portici della Basilica Vaticana from: Il Nuovo Teatro delle Fabbriche, et Edificii, in Prospettiva di Rome Moderna (...)
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 7 3/16 x 11 3/8 in. (18.2 x 28.9 cm) Sheet: 10 11/16 x 15 7/16 in. (27.2 x 39.2 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1931
Accession Number
31.67.4(1)
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the grandeur of 17th-century with *Piazza e Portici Basilica Vaticana*, an exquisite etching from Giovanni Battista Falda's *Il Nuovo Teatro delle Fabiche, et Edific, in Prospettiva Rome Moderna* (1665–69). Created in collaboration with publisher Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi, this captures the majestic piazza and porticos of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, a centerpiece of Baroque Rome. Falda, a master of vedute—topographical views—meticulously renders the sweeping colonnades designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, evoking the awe-inspiring scale that drew pilgrims and grand tourists ali...
About the Artist
Giovanni Battista Falda|Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi · 1640–1678
Italian architectural engraver. Comment on works: Draughtsman; Engraver