Skip to main content
Fireworks Display in the Piazzetta San Marco - Image 1
Fireworks Display in the Piazzetta San Marco - Image 2
Fireworks Display in the Piazzetta San Marco - Image 3
Fireworks Display in the Piazzetta San Marco - Image 4

Pieter van der Aa

Fireworks Display in the Piazzetta San Marco

1721

Thumbnail 1
Thumbnail 2
Thumbnail 3
Thumbnail 4
Scroll

Pieter van der Aa

Fireworks Display in the Piazzetta San Marco

1721

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet: 387 x 435 mm. (15 1/4 x 17 1/8 in.) Plate: 312 × 404 mm. (12 5/16 × 15 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Purchased as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth S. Battye, Baltimore
Object Number 1980.130
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase; Osvaldo Bohm, Venice, Italy, 5/12/80 (Lira 200,000).
The City Real and Ideal

Inscribed: lower right center, in Latin and French in plate: "Volo Fuochi Artificialli, et altri Givochi nel Giovedi grasso"

Artist

Pieter van der Aa

1658–1732

Dutch, 1659-1733
Meet Pieter →

Explore the Collection Further

Michele Marieschi
View of the Piazza and Piazzetta San Marco
1740
Georges Clairin
Study of San Marco, Venice
1894
Aaron Siskind
San Luis Potosi 16
1960
Farah Mohammad
Hasankeyf
2014
Emmanuel Massillon
“Mud Libation” (RIP Fredo Santana)
2019
Paulus Pontius and Nicolas Van der Horst
Portrait of Mulay Hasan
1644
Chrysanthemum-Shaped Dish
1224–1399
Hair Pin with Openwork Design of a Leafy Chrysanthemum
1899–1911
Hair Pin (hirauchi kanzushi) with Chrysanthemum Flower and Maple Leaf Design
1879–1919
Hair Pin with Openwork Design of a Butterfly and Chrysanthemum
1884–1894
Hair Pin with Openwork Design of a Leafy Chrysanthemum
1884–1894
Comb (kushi) and Hair Stick (kogai) Decorated with Nandina and Chrysanthemum
1866–1911