Tempio di Sant'Andrea, Via Flaminia, from "Vues de Rome"
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 9/16 × 14 3/16 in. (21.7 × 36 cm) Plate: 5 1/8 × 6 15/16 in. (13 × 17.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.4
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into 18th-century Rome with *Tempio di Sant'Andrea, Flaminia*, an exquisite etching by French artist Jérôme Charles Bellicard his series *Vues de Rome* (1750). This captures the serene beauty of a small ancient temple along the historic Via Flaminia, of Rome's oldest roads, evoking the grandeur of classical during the height of the Grand Tour era. Travelers and scholars flocked to Italy, sketching ruins to preserve and romanticize the Eternal City's past amid the Enlightenment's fascination with history and architecture. Bellicard's precise etching technique—using acid to bite intricate ...