Giovanni Battista Piranesi
From the series “Vedute di Roma”
1764
Physical Qualities
Etching, engraving, and stipple, Sheet: 529 x 729 mm. (20 13/16 x 28 11/16 in.)
Plate: 431 x 656 mm. (16 15/16 x 25 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.15839
Ruins of the Xystus [a long portico used for athletic exercises], the central hall of the Antonine Baths [The Baths of Caracalla]
Jay Fisher, BMA, "The Antique as Inspiration: Eighteenth-Century European Drawings and Prints," 27 June - 26 September 1993.
Mark Alice Durant, BMA, "Front Room: Notes on Monumentality," 27 February - 25 May 2008.
Mark Alice Durant, BMA, "Front Room: Notes on Monumentality," 27 February - 25 May 2008.
Inscribed: lower right in plate: "Rovine del Sisto, o sia della gran sala / delle terme Antoniane / Cavalier Piranesi F"
