- Pianta di Roma e del Campo Marzio. Rome, c. 1774
- Curatorial Notes:
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- Piranesi’s earlier works echo in this one. Late in Piranesi’s career, after he had already published large-scale maps within the Antichità Romane and the Campo Marzio, Piranesi returned to the subjects of these books with this city plan. He expanded the small version of Nolli’s map that he had helped etch in 1748 and reversed its north-south orientation. Like the plan of the Campo Marzio, this map appears to be etched on a stone fragment. The columns of text combine a staggering amount of information onto one large page, printed from multiple copperplates and assembled from several pieces of paper. Although the enormous map seems designed for a wall, it also was planned with books in mind. The print could be used as a spectacular frontispiece or accompaniment to copies of the Vedute di Roma, one that doubled as a table of contents for the prints and reference point for its depicted monuments.
- Date:
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- 1778
- Format:
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- Book
- Type:
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- Maps
- Extent:
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- 3 l. ; 88 x 61 cm.
- Creator:
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- [Rome: G.B. Piranesi, 1778]
- Language:
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- Italian
- Subject:
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- Rome (Italy)—Maps
- Campo Marzio (Rome, Italy)—Maps
- Maps
- Author:
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- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Description:
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- Caption title.
- Credit line:
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- Rare Books, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
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- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/m900p3766