2023.175: Antichità Romane de' Tempi della Repubblica e de' primi Imperatori

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2023.175

People

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian (Mogliano Veneto, Italy 1720 - 1778 Rome, Italy)

Title

Antichità Romane de' Tempi della Repubblica e de' primi Imperatori

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Alcune Vedute di Archi Trionfali
Alternate Title: Some Views of Triumphal Arches and other monuments erected by the Romans, some of which are in Rome and some elsewhere in Italy

Classification

Prints

Work Type

book

Date

1748

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/30082

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

closed: 59.5 × 45.5 cm (23 7/16 × 17 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• label: front pastedown: [black ink:] Arc / 750.20 / [printed:] Ex Dono / [brown ink:] Thomae Palmer. / Boston. / 1772.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Thomas Palmer, Boston, gift; to Harvard College, 1772, eventually Harvard College Library, transfer; to Harvard Art Museums, 2022

Acquisition and Rights

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

2023

Object Number

2023.175

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Includes the following plates in this order:

Title Plate (Wilton-Ely 103)
pl. 2 Dedication to Giovanni Bottari (W-E 104)
pl. 3 Transcription of various ancient Latin inscriptions (W-E 105)
pl. 4 Transcription of various ancient Latin inscriptions and index (W-E 106)
pl. 5 Part of the Forum of Nerva (W-E 108)
pl. 6 Arch of Titus, etc. (W-E 109)
pl. 7 Temple of Jupiter Tonans; Temple of Concord (W-E 110)
pl. 8 Arch of Drusus at the Porta S. Sebastiano in Rome (W-E 111)
pl. 9 Arch of Constantine in Rome (W-E 112)
pl. 10 Ruins of the Temple of Jupiter Stator... (W-E 113)
pl. 11 Temple of Janus (W-E 114)
pl. 12 Flavian Amphitheater, called the Colosseum... (W-E 115)
pl. 13 Arch of Septimus Severus... (W-E 116)
pl. 14 Senatorial Bridge, today called the Ponte Rotto... (W-E 117)
pl. 15 Forum of Augustus (W-E 118)
pl. 16 Roman Antiquities outside Rome drawn and etched by Giambat'ta Piranesi, Venetian Architect, Part Two (W-E 119)
pl. 17 The Bridge at Rimini built by the Emperors Augustus and Tiberius (W-E 120)
pl. 18 The Arch at Rimini built by Augustus (W-E 121)
pl. 19 Tomb of the Scipios (W-E 122)
pl. 20 Part of the ancient Appian Way about three miles outsde Porta S. Sebastiano (W-E 123)
pl. 21 Tomb of Caecilia Metella called Capo di Bove (W-E 124)
pl. 22 Temploe of Pola in Istria (W-E 125)
pl. 23 Rear View of the Temple of Pola in Istria... (W-E 126)
pl. 24 Arch of Pola in Istria near the Gate (W-E 128)
pl. 25 Amphitheater of Verona (W-E 129)
pl. 26 Temple of Clitumnus between Foligno and Spoleto (W-E 130)
pl. 27 Tomb of the three Curiatii brothers in Albano (W-E 131)
pl. 28 Arch of Trajan in Ancona (W-E 132)
pl. 29 Arch of Galienus... (W-E 133)

[not included: W-E 107, 127]

Publication History

• John E. Moore, "Prints, Salami, and Cheese: Savoring the Roman Festival of the Chinea", The Art Bulletin (December 1995), vol. 77, no. 4, pp. 584-608, p. 604, note 100
• Ethan Lasser, ed., The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2017), pp. 51-54

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