Obelisque dans la Jardein Mattei, Obelisque de la Place de St. Pierre, Colonne tirée des ruines du Temple de la Paix et élevé sur la Place de Ste. Marie Majeure, Obelisque sur la Fountaine de Place Navone, Obelisque etendu par terre dans la cour du Palais Barberini, Obelisque sur la Place du Peuple, from Les Plus Beaux Monuments de Rome Ancienne ou Recueil des plus beaux Morceaux de l'Antiquité Romaine qui existent encore
Plate 30, Capriccio with five obelisks and a column. This image, one of twenty-nine full-page plates in the volume, faces page 47, the first of four pages with text describing the monuments included in the plate.
The monuments shown in this plate are identified in the inscription:
1. an obelisk in the Villa Celimontana (previously Villa Mattei) on the Caelian Hill,
2. an obelisk in St. Peter's Square,
3. Column of Peace, now in the Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore, previously in the Basilica of Maxentius (thought to be Temple of Peace)
4. an obelisk on the Fountain of Piazza Navona,
5. an obelisk lying on the ground, which was at the Piazza Barberini before it was elevated at the Villa Medici in 1822
6. an obelisk from the Piazza del Popolo
The monuments shown in this plate are identified in the inscription:
1. an obelisk in the Villa Celimontana (previously Villa Mattei) on the Caelian Hill,
2. an obelisk in St. Peter's Square,
3. Column of Peace, now in the Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore, previously in the Basilica of Maxentius (thought to be Temple of Peace)
4. an obelisk on the Fountain of Piazza Navona,
5. an obelisk lying on the ground, which was at the Piazza Barberini before it was elevated at the Villa Medici in 1822
6. an obelisk from the Piazza del Popolo
Artwork Details
- Title: Obelisque dans la Jardein Mattei, Obelisque de la Place de St. Pierre, Colonne tirée des ruines du Temple de la Paix et élevé sur la Place de Ste. Marie Majeure, Obelisque sur la Fountaine de Place Navone, Obelisque etendu par terre dans la cour du Palais Barberini, Obelisque sur la Place du Peuple, from Les Plus Beaux Monuments de Rome Ancienne ou Recueil des plus beaux Morceaux de l'Antiquité Romaine qui existent encore
- Artist: After Jean Barbault (French, Viarmes 1718–1762 Rome)
- Engraver: Dominico Montagu (Italian, active Rome, ca. 1750–76)
- Printer: Giunchi Heritiers de Komarek
- Publisher: Bouchard & Gravier (Rome)
- Published in: Rome
- Date: 1761
- Medium: Etching
- Dimensions: Plate: 14 1/2 × 10 in. (36.9 × 25.4 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1952
- Object Number: 52.519.87(58)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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