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Gianbattista Piranesi
Mozano di Mestre, Venice 1720 – 1778 Rome
So-called Tempio della Tosse, near Tivoli – Interior Upright
So-called Tempio della Tosse, near Tivoli – Interior Upright
Hind 70 i or ii/v
618 x 460 mm
Original etching, 1764.
The plate signed.
With Piranesi’s address and price.
A lifetime impression.
With the usual central fold.
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Information about the Print
The Vedute di Roma
The 135 large double folio sized plates of the Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome), which had immediate and continuing success, were etched by Piranesi from the later 1740’s until the end of his life. The plates produced up to 1760 were first published by Bouchard e Gravier; those post 1760 were published in his lifetime by Piranesi himself, from the Palazzo Tomati.
Piranesi very rarely dated his etchings. Up to 1764/65 he signed the plates Piranesi fecit.
From 1766, after he was knighted by the Pope, Clement XIII, he signed Cavaliere Piranesi.
Nothing is known of this Roman structure, thought possibly to be part of a Roman villa, near Tivoli and the Aniene.
It acquired the name of Tempio delle Tosse in the Middle Ages, when it was said, without any foundation, that it was a temple dedicated to the personification of the cough, to ward off disease from the Tiburtina population.
Piranesi also etched the exterior of the so-called Tempio della Tosse in landscape format.
Prints from The Vedute di Roma in this exhibition are:
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