Plate 12: Flavian Amphitheater, called the Colosseum. 1. Arch of Constantine. 2. Palatine Hill. (Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo in Roma. 1. Arco di Costantino. 2. Monte Palatino.)

Series/Portfolio:: Antichità Romane de' Tempi della Repubblica, e de' primi Imperatori (Roman Antiquity of the Time of the Republic and the First Emperors)

Artist:: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome)

Date:: ca. 1748

Medium:: Etching

Dimensions:: Plate: 5 1/4 × 10 13/16 in. (13.4 × 27.4 cm) Sheet: 13 1/8 × 18 7/8 in. (33.3 × 48 cm)

Classification:: Prints

Credit Line:: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937

Accession Number:: 37.45.3(79)

Not on view

Antichita Romana

Inscription: Lettered in plate: along bottom from left 'Piranesi fecit / Tav. 12 / Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo in Roma.'; numbered key lower right '1. Arco di Costantino./ 2. Monte Palatino.'

Numbered in plate: at right '1', '2'

Focillon 53; HInd 76.12; Wilton-Ely 157.115

Essays
The French Academy in Rome
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778)
The Grand Tour
Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)
Neoclassicism
The Printed Image in the West: History and Techniques
The Rediscovery of Classical Antiquity
Venice in the Eighteenth Century

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Drawings and Prints (154,067)

Artist / Maker / Culture

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1,389)

Object Type / Material

Geographic Location

Date / Era

A.D. 1600–1800 (74,674)

Concerning the Fountainhead of the Acqua Giulia [sections, detail of construction and plan], from Le Rovine del Castello dell'Acqua Giulia situato in Roma presso S. Eusebio, e falsamente detto dell'Acqua Marcia colla dichiarazione di uno de celebri passi del commentario Frontinano e l'esposizione della maniera con cui gli antichi Romani distribuivano le acque per uso della città (Ruins of the Fountainhead of the Acqua Giulia in Rome, near S. Eusebio and incorrectly called the Fountainhead of the Acqua Marcia, with a discussion of one of the celebrated passages from the commentary by Frontinus and an explanation of the manner in which the ancient Romans distributed the water for the use of the city), tavola 16

Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome) Date: 1761 Medium: Etching Accession: 41.71.1.9(44) On view in:Not on view

Trophies of Augustus on the Campidoglio, which once stood on the ruins of the arches of the Fountainhead, from Le Rovine del Castello dell'Acqua Giulia situato in Roma presso S. Eusebio, e falsamente detto dell'Acqua Marcia colla dichiarazione di uno de celebri passi del commentario Frontinano e l'esposizione della maniera con cui gli antichi Romani distribuivano le acque per uso della città (Ruins of the Fountainhead of the Acqua Giulia in Rome, near S. Eusebio and incorrectly called the Fountainhead of the Acqua Marcia, with a discussion of one of the celebrated passages from the commentary by Frontinus and an explanation of the manner in which the ancient Romans distributed the water for the use of the city), tavola 17

Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome) Date: 1761 Medium: Etching Accession: 41.71.1.9(45) On view in:Not on view

Plate 12: Flavian Amphitheater, called the Colosseum. 1. Arch of Constantine. 2. Palatine Hill. (Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo in Roma. 1. Arco di Costantino. 2. Monte Palatino.)

The Arch of Septimus Severus

The Arch of Titus

The Drawbridge, from Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)