Vedute Di Roma: The Colosseum

Artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778)

CultureItalian

Dateca. 1757

MediumEtching

DimensionsOverall, Frame: 27 x 36 in. (68.6 x 91.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mark A. Clark in Honor of the Marriage of Catherine and John Wass

Object number97.36.2

Not on view

DescriptionThis is an etching of the ruins of a colosseum.

Label TextGiovanni Battista Piranesi Italian (1720-1778) Vedute di Roma: The Colosseum, ca. 1757 Etching Gift of Mark A. Clark in honor of the marriage of Catherine and John Wass 97.36.2 Completed by the Emperor Domitian in AD 82, the Colosseum was celebrated in late antiquity as the eighth Wonder of the World and since then has served as an eternal symbol of Rome. Piranesi's dramatic evocation presents the amphitheater as a grand, cavernous ruin, a majestic emblem of the vanished grandeur of Imperial Rome. Edited By: DS Edited Date: 08/2005 Approved By: MHM Approval Date: 10/13/2005Exhibition History"The Lure of Rome: Antiquity and the Art of the West," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., February 6 - May 1, 1998.