The Temple of Vespasian and Titus (Veduta del Tempio di Giove Tonante)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
ca. 1756
Medium
etching
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Alfred J. Marrow, 1964
Accession Number
64.521.3
Tags
BuildingsTemplesTrees
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...