- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2008.312.25
- People
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian (Mogliano Veneto, Italy 1720 - 1778 Rome, Italy)
- Title
- View of the Palace of the Illustrious Barberini Family on the Quirinal Hill, Designed by Cavaliere Bernini
- Other Titles
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Series/Book Title: Vedute di Roma
Former Title: The Palazzo Barberini
Original Language Title: Veduta sul Monte Quirinale del Palazzo dell'Eccellentissima Casa Barberini, Architettura del Cav.r Bernino - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1749
- Culture
- Italian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/237487
- Physical Descriptions
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- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
- image: 37.6 × 60.7 cm (14 13/16 × 23 7/8 in.)
plate: 40.3 × 61.6 cm (15 7/8 × 24 1/4 in.)
sheet: 53.9 × 79.4 cm (21 1/4 × 31 1/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower right, graphite: H. 25
- inscription: lower center, in plate: Veduta sul Monte Quirinale del Palazzo dell' Eccellentissima Casa Barberini, Architettura del Cav.r Bernino
- inscription: lower left, in sheet: Piranesi fece
- inscription: lower left, in plate: 1. Ponte levatojo, che dal vestibolo superiore dà / l'ingreƒso al Secondo Appartamento del Palazzo.
- inscription: lower left, in plate: Presso l'autore a Strada Felice nel palazzo Tomati vicino alla Trinità de' monti A paoli due e mezzo.
- inscription: lower left-center, in plate: 2. Iscrizione dell' Arco di Claudio ritrovata fra le di lui rovine alla Piazza di Sciarra, / e dinotante le Vittorie riportate da questo Imperadore spora i Britanni.
- inscription: lower center, in plate: 3. Uno de' Portoni del Vestibolo, cor= / rispondente alla Piazza Barberini.
- inscription: lower center, in plate: 4. Chiesa de' Cappuccini.
- inscription: lower center-right, in plate: 5. Laboro antico di granito, che serve alla / fontana del Vestibolo inferiore.
- inscription: lower right, in plate: 6. Obelisco Egizziaco, ivi trasferito dal Circo d'Elagabalo, o come / altri vogliono d'Aureliano, che rimaneva fuori dell'odierna Porta Magg.e
- inscription: right middle edge, in plate: 2
- inscription: left middle edge, in plate: 5
- inscription: left middle edge, in plate: 4
- inscription: left middle edge, in plate: 3
- inscription: lower left, in plate: 6
- inscription: right edge, middle, in plate: 1
- Provenance
- Thomas Palmer, Esq., Boston, gift; to Harvard University, 1772, transferred; to Harvard Art Museums, 2008
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- State
- ii/v
- Standard Reference Number
- Hind 25; Focillon 740; Salamon D56; Wilton-Ely 188
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Permanent transfer from the Fine Arts Library, Harvard University, Gift of Thomas Palmer, Esq., of Boston, 1772
- Accession Year
- 2008
- Object Number
- 2008.312.25
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Exhibition History
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Rome: Eternal City, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/20/2018 - 05/06/2018
- Related Works
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