Veduta del Tempio di Giove Tonante
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1740s–60s
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Image: 38 x 59.5 cm (14 15/16 x 23 7/16 in.)
Classification
Prints
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Walker Evans Archive, 1994
Accession Number
1994.263.168
Tags
Human FiguresBuildingsTemples
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...