Plan of Rome..., from Le Antichità Romane (Roman Antiquities)
ca. 1756
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 19 1/8 x 27 3/8 in. (48.5 x 69.5 cm) Plate: 18 5/16 x 26 3/4 in. (46.5 x 68 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924
Accession Number
24.63.972
Tags
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...