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Veduta delle Terme di Tito

1775

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Associated Names

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

The image shows a top-down view of a landscape with ancient ruins among overgrown vegetation. Small figures are scattered among the ruins, reflecting scale and activity. The intricate and detailed style features precise etching strokes representing stone texture and nature reclaiming the structures. The monochromatic color palette emphasizes contrasts of black and white, enhancing the etching work and showcasing the dilapidated ruins merging with the landscape.

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Artwork overview

Medium

etching on laid paper
Credit Line

Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection, acquired with assistance from The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation
Dimensions

plate: 49.2 x 71.6 cm (19 3/8 x 28 3/16 in.)
sheet: 53.9 x 77.2 cm (21 1/4 x 30 3/8 in.)
Accession Number

1985.61.126
Catalogue Raisonné

Hind 1922, no. 123, State i/iii
Series Title

Vedute di Roma

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Millard, Mark Jacob

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

lower center in plate: VEDUTA DELLE TERME DI TITO / ...; lower left in plate: Cav. Piranesi F.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: M 123

Wikidata ID

Q74070348

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