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Plan of the Column of Marcus Aurelius, from "Trofeo o sia Magnifica Colonna Coclide..." (The Trophy or Magnificent Spiral Column); Columna Antonina

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1774–79

View of the Temple of the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

ca. 1761

Map of Rome and the Campus Martius, bound with "Vedute di Roma" (Views of Rome), part I

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

ca. 1774

Detail of the cryptoporticus marked C in Plate IX, tavola 12 from "Di due spelonche ornate dagli antichi alla Riva del Lago Albano" (concerning two caves embellished by the ancients on the bank of Lake Albano)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1762

Chimneypiece: Head of Medusa between two centaurs on the lintel, from "Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini..." (Diverse Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces...)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1769

Plan of a spacious and magnificent College designed after the ancient gymnasia of the Greeks and the baths of the Romans..., from "Opere Varie di Architettura, prospettive, grotteschi, antichità; inventate, ed incise da Giambattista Piranesi Architetto Veneziano" (Various Works of Architecture, perspectives, grotesques and antiquities; designed and etched by Giambattista Piranesi, Venetian Architect)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1750

Miscellaneous furniture including a sedan chair and a commode, from "Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini..." (Diverse Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces...)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1769

Section of the Aqueduct of Caracalla..., tome 1, tavola 19, figure 2 from "Le Antichità Romane" (Roman Antiquities)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1756–57

Tailpiece at end of "Apologia," p. 35 [Satirical vignette against Bertrand Capmartin de Chaupy, author of a book on the villa of Horace, Découverte de la maison de campagne d'Horaze, 1767-79], from "Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini..." (Diverse Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces...)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1769

Front view of the column of Marcus Aurelius, from "Trofeo o sia Magnifica Colonna Coclide..." (The Trophy or Magnificent Spiral Column...)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1774–79

Veduta del Tempio di Giove Tonante

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1740s–60s

Two Chimneypieces: The larger with Janus heads on the lintel and the smaller on a sheet attached to the main plate, from "Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini..." (Diverse Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces...)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1769

One of the Shorter Sides of the Sarcophagus, with the Portland Vase in the foreground, tome 2, tavola 35 from "Le Antichità Romane" (Roman Antiquities)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

published 1756–57

Title page, from "Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive" (Part one of Architecture and Perspectives)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

printed 1800–09

Remains of the substructures and ruins of the Theater of Balbus, today a mound in the Regula Region, plate 28 from "Il Campo Marzio dell' Antica Roma, Opera di G.B. Piranesi socio della reale società degli antiquari di Londra" (The Campus Martius of Ancient Rome, the Work of G.B. Piranesi, Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, London)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1762

Transverse section of one of the lower banks of seats in the Theater of Marcellus facing the Via de' Senatori..., tome 4, tavola 31 from "Le Antichità Romane" (Roman Antiquities)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

published 1756–57

View of the Palazzo di Montecitorio..., from "Vedute di Roma" (Views of Rome), part I

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

ca. 1750–78

Plan of Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli

Francesco Piranesi

1781

Chimneypiece: Head of Medusa between two satyr heads on the lintel, from "Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini..." (Diverse Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces...)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1769

Concerning the Fountainhead of the Acqua Giulia [details of Porta S. Lorenzo showing entablature and partial inscription], tavola 7 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)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1761

The Fontana dell'Acqua Giulia (Veduta dell'avanzo del Castello dell'Acqua Giulia)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

ca. 1753

The Pyramid of Gaius Cestius, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

ca. 1756

View of the Palazzo della Consulta on the Quirinal housing the Papal Secretariat, from "Vedute di Roma" (Views of Rome), part I

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

ca. 1750–78

Studies of heads, plate 24 from "Raccolta di Alcuni Disegni del Barberi da Cento detto il Guernico, incisi in Rame, e presentati al singolar merito del Sig. Tommaso Jenkins pittore, ed accademico di S. Luca, in atto di respetto e d'amicizia dall'architetto e suo coaccademio: Gio. Battista Piranesi" (Collection of several drawings after Barbieri da Cento (known as Guercino) etched on copper and presented to Thomas Jenkins, painter and member of the Academy of St. Luke, out of respect and friendship from his fellow member, the architect Gio. Battista Piranesi)

James Nevay

1764

Frontispiece [aerial view of a reconstructed portion of the Campus Martius], from "Il Campo Marzio dell' Antica Roma, Opera di G.B. Piranesi socio della reale società degli antiquari di Londra" (The Campus Martius of Ancient Rome, the Work of G.B. Piranesi, Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, London)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1762

The Arch of Titus

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

ca. 1760–1800

View of the so-called Temple of Concord with the Temple of Saturn, on the right the Arch of Septimius Severus

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1760–78

Remains of ancient buldings among which stands the sepulchral urn of Marcus Agrippa made entirely of porphyry, which serves today as the Tomb of Clement XII... (Vestiggi d'antichi Edifici fra i quali evvi l'Urna Sepolcrale tutta d'un pezzo di...), from "Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive"

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

ca. 1750

The Well, plate 13 from "Carceri d'Invenzioni" (Imaginary Prisons)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

printed 1800–09

Additional plate to Parere [Detail of an imaginary architectural composition with femle figures supporting a garland and inscription from Ovid's Metamorphoses XV], tavola 8 from "Osservazioni di Gio. Battista Piranesi sopra la lettere de M. Mariette aux auteurs de la Gazette Littéraire de l'Europe..." (Observations of Giovanni Battista Piranesi on the Letter of M. Mariette to the authors of the Gazette Littéraire de l'Europe...)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1765

General plan of the Continuation of the street, and of the buildings adjacent to the house of the surgeon, from "Antiquités de Pompeïa, tome second, Antiquités de la Grande Grèce..." (Antiquities of Pompeii, volume two, Antiquities of Great Greece...), volume 2, plate 44

Francesco Piranesi

1806

View of the Arch of Constantine the Great, tome 1, tavola 36, figure 2 from "Le Antichità Romane" (Roman Antiquities)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1756–57

Topographical Map of Rome, Showing Hydraulic and Defensive Systems, tome 1, tavola 37, figure 2 from "Le Antichità Romane" (Roman Antiquities)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1756–57

Section of column base from the Temple of Fortuna Virilis (Tempio della Fortuna Virile), from "Le Antichità Romane"

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1756

The Veil of St. Veronica (or Head of John the Baptist on a Plate), plate 4 from "Raccolta di Alcuni Disegni del Barberi da Cento detto il Guernico, incisi in Rame, e presentati al singolar merito del Sig. Tommaso Jenkins pittore, ed accademico di S. Luca, in atto di respetto e d'amicizia dall'architetto e suo coaccademio: Gio. Battista Piranesi" (Collection of several drawings after Barbieri da Cento (known as Guercino) etched on copper and presented to Thomas Jenkins, painter and member of the Academy of St. Luke, out of respect and friendship from his fellow member, the architect Gio. Battista Piranesi)

James Nevay

1764

Chimneypiece: Central relief with a female figure reclining on a Roman bed, from "Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini..." (Diverse Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces...)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1769

Senatorial Bridge, today called the Ponte Rotto [Broken Bridge], Temple of Vesta, Temple of Fortuna Virilis, and Part of the ancient Palatine, tavola 14 from "Alcune Vedute di Archi Trionfali ed altri monumenti analzati da Romani parte de quali se veggono in Roma e parte per l'Italia" (Some Views of Triumphal Arches and other monuments erected by the Romans, some of which are in Rome and some elsewhere in Italy)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

printed after 1775

Plan of a tomb outside of Porta S. Sebastiano on the ancient Appian Way in the Vigna Buonamici..., tome 3, tavola 9 from "Le Antichità Romane" (Roman Antiquities)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

published 1756–57

Chimneypiece in the Egyptian style: Two mummies in profile on the left and two figures brearing obelisks on the right (Ch. à l'ègyptienne), from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi...(Different Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces and all other parts of houses)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

ca. 1769

Plate X: top portion of pedestal and base of Trajan's column, from two plates, from "Trofeo o sia Magnifica Colonna Coclide..." (The Trophy or Magnificent Spiral Column...)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1774–79

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