Veduta della Facciata della Basilica di S. Croce in Gerusalemme

probably 1757/1758

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Artwork overview

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1985.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2000

  • Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2000, no. 424, repro.

Bibliography

1918

  • Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi; essai de catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre. Paris: Librairie Renouard, Henri Laurens, 1918.

1922

  • Hind, Arthur M. Giovanni Battista Piranesi; a critical study with a list of his published works and detailed catalogues of the prisons and the views of Rome. London: Cotswold Gallery; New York: E. Weyhe, 1922.

Inscriptions

across bottom in plate: Presso l'autore a Strada Felice nel Palazzo Tomati vicino alla Trinità de' monti. A paoli due e mezzo. / Veduta della Facciata della Basilica di S. Croce in Gerusalemme / ... / Giovan. Battista Piranesi Architetto dis. ed. inc.; by later hands, lower right in graphite: 11 / H/11 / F/729

Wikidata ID

Q74069686


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