![]() ![]() In 1764, one of the Pope’s nephews, Cardinal Rezzonico, appointed him to start his only architectural work, the restoration of the church of Santa Maria del Priorato in the Villa of the Knights of Malta, on Rome’s Aventine Hill. ![]() The following year he was commissioned by Pope Clement XIII to restore the choir of San Giovanni in Laterano, but the work did not materialize. ![]() In 1762 the Campo Marzio dell’antica Roma collection of engravings was printed. In 1761 he became a member of the Accademia di San Luca and opened a printing house of his own. In the meantime Piranesi devoted himself to the measurement of many of the ancient buildings, which led to the publication of Le Antichità Romane de’ tempo della prima Repubblica e dei primi imperatori (“Roman Antiquities of the Time of the First Republic and the First Emperors”). Giovanni then returned to Rome, where he opened a workshop in Via del Corso and in 1748 – 1774 he created an important series of vedute of the city which established his fame. It was Tiepolo who expanded the restrictive conventions of reproductive, topographical and antiquarian engravings. In 1743 Giovanni created his first work the Prima parte di Architettura e Prospettive, and followed that up in 1745 with Varie Vedute di Roma Antica e Moderna.įrom 1743 to 1747 Giovanni was mainly in Venice where, according to some sources, he often visited Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, a leading artist in Venice. Giuseppe Vasi found that Giovanni’s talent was much greater than that of a mere engraver according to Legrand, Vasi told Piranesi that “you are too much of a painter, my friend, to be an engraver.”Īfter his studies with Vasi concluded, he collaborated with pupils of the French Academy in Rome to produce a series of vedute (views) of the city. He resided in the Palazzo Venezia and studied under Giuseppe Vasi, who introduced him to the art of etching and engraving of the city and its monuments. Later he was apprenticed under his uncle, Matteo Lucchesi, who was a leading architect in Magistrato delle Acque, the state organization responsible for engineering and restoring historical buildings.įrom 1740, Giovanni had an opportunity to work in Rome as a draughtsman for Marco Foscarini, the Venetian ambassador of the new Pope Benedict XIV. His brother Andrea introduced him to Latin literature and ancient Greco-Roman civilization. Piranesi was the son of a stonemason and was born in Venice, in the parish of S. The Colosseum is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image. It is the most important Roman amphitheater as well as the most imposing monument of ancient Rome.Ĭonstruction of the Flavian Amphitheater started in 70 AD by the Roman Emperor Vespasian (9 AD – 79 AD) who ruled from 69 AD to 79 AD and was inaugurated in 80 AD by the son of Vespasian – Titus (39 AD – 81 AD), who ruled from 79 AD to 81 AD. The Colosseum is the largest amphitheater in the world and had an estimated spectator capacity of between 50,000 and 87,000 people. This is a view of the Flavian Amphitheater, known as the Colosseum located in the center of the city of Rome. The Colosseum c1757 by Italian Painter Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 – 1778) painter, classical archaeologist and architect know for his etchings of Rome and fictitious atmospheric prisons. The Colosseum by Giovanni Battista Piranesi ![]()
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