Plate 11: Temple of Janus (Tempio di Giano) from the series 'Antichita Romana'

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 3/16 × 10 1/2 in. (13.2 × 26.6 cm) Sheet: 12 11/16 × 18 7/8 in. (32.2 × 48 cm)

Classification:: Prints

Credit Line:: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937

Accession Number:: 37.45.3(78)

Not on view

Inscription: Lettered in plate: top right 'Tav. 11'; bottom right 'TEMPIO DI/ GIANO', 'PIRANESI FECIT'

Focillon 52; Hind 76.11; Wilton-Ely 156.114

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

Department

Drawings and Prints (151,078)

Artist / Maker / Culture

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1,389)

Object Type / Material

Geographic Location

Date / Era

A.D. 1600–1800 (74,244)

The Octagonal Room in the Small Baths at the Villa of Hadrian (Tivoli).

Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome) Date: ca. 1777 Medium: Red chalk over black chalk or charcoal with partly ruled construction; sheet glued onto secondary paper support Accession: 1994.20 On view in:Not on view

Two Men Holding Long Staffs (recto); Proof impression of part of an etching, and scribbles in the artist's hand (verso)

Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome) Date: 1720–78 Medium: Pen and brown ink Accession: 1972.118.269 On view in:Not on view

The Round Tower, from 'Carceri d'invenzione' (Imaginary Prisons)

Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome) Date: ca. 1749–50 Medium: Etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing; first state of four (Robison) Accession: 37.45.3(27) On view in:Not on view

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

Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome) Date: ca. 1749–50 Medium: Etching, engraving, scratching; first state of six (Robison) Accession: 37.45.3(23) On view in:Not on view

Veduta del Tempio di Giove Tonante

Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome) Date: 1740s–60s Medium: Engraving Accession: 1994.263.168 On view in:Not on view