Veduta dell' Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo (View of the Flavian Amphitheater known as the Colosseum)
Artist
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)Italian, 1720–1778
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)
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
Object number2012.222
Non exposé
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Exhibition History"Vignettes: Masterworks on Paper 1520 to 1870," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 14—April 16, 2017.
"Old Masters" The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, May 4-Nov. 23,2024 [Fourth Installation/Light-Sensitive Rotation: Beck Building 201-8, 210-212,217: No Catalog]
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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