Veduta dell'Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo, from: 'Vedute di Roma' (Views of Rome)
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.570.426
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the majestic ruins of ancient Rome with Giovanni Battista Piranesi's *Veduta dellfiteatro Flavio il Colosseo* (View of the Flavian Amphitheater Known as the Colosseum an etching from his renowned series *Vedute di* (Views of Rome created in 1776. This monumental print, measuring an impressive 30 x inches, captures the Colosseum's weathered arches and towering form against a vast sky, evoking the of imperial grandeur amid decay. Piranesi, a masterful Venetian-born artist and architect active in 18th-century Rome, was obsessed with antiquity, producing over 100 vedute that romanticize...
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...