Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Veduta dell' Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo (View of the Flavian Amphitheater known as the Colosseum)

Veduta dell' Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo (View of the Flavian Amphitheater known as the Colosseum)

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Veduta dell' Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo (View of the Flavian Amphitheater known as the Colosseum)
CultureItalian
Titles
  • Veduta dell' Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo (View of the Flavian Amphitheater known as the Colosseum)
  • from the series Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)
Date1776
Place depictedRome, Italy
MediumEtching on laid paper, state I/IV
DimensionsPlate: 19 1/2 × 28 in. (49.5 × 71.1 cm)
Sheet: 21 3/8 × 31 in. (54.3 × 78.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2012.222
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
205 Vinson & Elkins Gallery
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Object Type
ProvenanceUnknown art dealer, France, by 2011; [Kunsthandlung Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt, 2011-2012]; purchased by MFAH, 2012.
Exhibition History"Vignettes: Masterworks on Paper 1520 to 1870," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 14—April 16, 2017.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed in the image lower left and right, titled: VEDUTA DEL'ANFITEATRO FLA= / VIO DETTO IL COLOSSEO / [ lettered A through O, description of areas and sections of the Colosseum] Cav. Piranesi F.
Catalogue raisonnéHind 126.1; Marini 126; Wilton-Ely 259; Focillon 759

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