Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) original etching, Castel Sant’ Angelo

Description: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) original etching, Castel Sant’ Angelo Veduta del ponte, e del Mausoleo, fabbricati da Elio Adriano Imp. From the series Le Antichità Romane. 28 ½ x 20 (sheet); 25 ½ x 18 (plate). Good strong early impression on laid paper, richly inked, no watermark. Full margins, original centrefold reinforced on verso, paper bright and crisp. Unframed and unmounted. A fine example Piranesi’s etching of the Castel Saint Angelo—the medieval refuge for the popes built atop the mausoleum built for the emperor Hadrian in the early 2nd century AD. Piranesi was born in Venice to a family of stonemasons, architects, and engineers, and his early apprenticeships in these fields laid the foundation for his later artistic work. It was in Rome, surrounded by the remnants of the Classical past, the Piranesi found his métier, and in a series of some one thousand etchings over the course of 30+ years Piranesi became synonymous with the romanticisation of ruins and the rediscovery of the material remains of antiquity that helped fuel the Grand Tour in the second half of the 18th century. Piranesi was elected an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries in London in 1757. Focillon 339; Wilton-Ely 472

Price: 1250 USD

Location: New York, New York

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