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GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI (Italian 1720-1778) A PRINT, "The Arch of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius," CIRCA 1762,
etching and engraving on wove paper, plate 36 from "Il Campo Marzio dell' Antica Roma;" 16 1/4" x 10 1/4", framed 20 1/2" x 16 1/2".

  • Provenance: Reverend Edward Bader, Houston, Texas; THE PRINTING MUSEUM, Houston, Texas, proceeds to benefit THE PRINTING MUSEUM, Houston, Texas.
  • Notes: Piranesi was a major Italian printmaker, architect and antiquarian. The son of a Venetian master builder, he studied architecture and stage design, through which he became familiar with Illusionism. During a visit (1740) to Rome, which was then emerging as the center of European Neoclassicism, Piranesi began his lifelong obsession with the visual diversity of the city's architecture. He was taught (1740-44) etching*, the art form for which he remains best known, by Giuseppe Vasi. Piranesi then began to etch views of Roman architecture that reflected his deeply felt emotional response to the surviving remnants of ancient grandeur. Piranesi's etchings, executed from the 1740s onward, are technically masterful evocations of ancient buildings that are simultaneously scholarly inquiries and fanciful essays in space, light, and scale. When collected and published (1756) in Antichita Romane (Roman Antiquities) the 135 etchings created a sensation throughout Europe. Equally stimulating are the superb architectural fantasies depicted in his Carceri d'Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons, begun c.1745, reworked 1761). Source: AskArt.com; Grolier Electronic Publishing
  • Condition: With the usual center horizontal crease (it was a double page in the book as published). There is some minor scuffing and discoloration at edges and in the text at bottom. There is some toning in the paper and a few scattered fox marks.

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