Gianbattista Piranesi
Mozano di Mestre, Venice 1720 – 1778 Rome
Frontispiece to
Il Campo Marzio dell’antica Roma. Opera de G B Piranesi, soccio della Società degli Antiquari di Londra
Frontispiece to
Il Campo Marzio dell’antica Roma. Opera de G B Piranesi, soccio della Società degli Antiquari di Londra
The Campus Martius of Ancient Rome, by G B Piranesi, Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries London
Wilton-Ely 560 452 x 290 mm Original etching, c1762. The plate signed. Edge-mounted. A small pale stain in the top margin
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The Campo Marzio
Though not published till 1762, Il Campo Marzio dell’antica Roma, developed from Piranesi’s giant map imaginatively reconstructing the plan of Ancient Rome, largely hidden beneath the medieval and modern city, etched c1755-57, which his friend Robert Adam, then studying in Rome, persuaded him to make the basis of a full-scale treatise, which on the title page Piranesi dedicated to Adam, who shared Piranesi’s concern that contemporary ‘modern’ design could benefit from imaginative uses of antique patterns.
What John Pinto describes as a “visionary” reconstruction of ancient Rome – a “blurring between archaeological fact and inventive fantasy”
Prints from the Campo Marzio in this exhibition are:
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