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

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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)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment Fund

Object number2012.222

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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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