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XL Reliquiae Pontis Milvii

£580.00

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

XL Reliquiae Pontis Milvii &c.

Il Camp Marzio dell’ Antica Roma &c

First Paris 1800 – 1807

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225 x 345 mm

£580.

Remains of the Milvian Bridge.

W. E. 601

SKU: 10629 Category: Piranesi Giovanni Battista Tag: Campus Martius
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XL Reliquiae Pontis Milvii – Giovanni Battista Piranesi Prints

Remains of the Milvian Bridge – Giovanni Battista Piranesi Prints

W. E. 601

During the mid-1750’s, frequently accompanied by the British architect Robert Adam (1728-92), Piranesi explored the monuments of the Campus Martius, near the Pantheon.

An open swampy parade ground, bounded by the Capitoline, Quirinal and Pincian hills. The Campus was primarily used during the Republic by Roman citizens as a place of assembly and for grazing livestock.

Pompey built the first stone theatre on the site in 55 B.C. By the time of the early empire the area was covered with many of the most wonderful structures in Rome. Circuses, theatres, porticoes, baths, columns, obelisks, mausolea, temples, etc.

Piranesi depicts the major remains in the form of vedute, their later accretions stripped away.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78)

When Piranesi first arrived in Rome in 1740 there was an already established market for views of the city as Grand Tour souvenirs.

His Vedute however, executed from about 1748 until the end of his life transcended mere topographical accuracy. And became a heroic and tragic vision to the power of Roman architecture.

Two aspects of Piranesi’s Venetian background were key to the enabling of this vision:

  • his training in engineering and stone construction which helped engender an appreciation of the effects of massive masonry. The poetic effect of ruins
  • and his training in stage design which cultivated a sensitivity to effects of light and great skill in both linear and atmospheric perspective.

These architectonic/scenographic concerns found heightened and highly personal expression in Piranesi’s series of fantastic prison interiors. The Carceri d’Invenzione – which first appeared in the 1740’s.

A highly imaginative eclecticism of style characterised Piranesi’s work as a designer.  A trait reflecting his belief in a creative attitude towards the use of antique sources.

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