View of the fountainhead and the Grotto of Egiria outside the Porta Capena
1760–78
Medium
Etching; second state of five
Dimensions
sheet: 20 5/8 x 29 13/16 in. (52.4 x 75.7 cm) plate: 15 13/16 x 27 1/8 in. (40.2 x 68.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.917
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...