Veduta dell'Anfiteatro Flavio, detto il Colosseo

Work on Paper

DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

5073

Description

Exterior view of the Flavian Amphitheater, called the Colosseum.

Artwork Details

Medium

Etching

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul Art Museum, gift of Judge John T. O'Connell

Made/Created

Artist

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista

Place

City

Rome

County

Italy

Continent

Europe

Notes

Creation Date: mid-18th century, printed early 19th century

Ethnography

Notes

Italian Europe, Italy

Lexicon

Legacy Lexicon

Class

WORKS ON PAPER

Dimensions

Dimension Description

image

Width

27 in

Length

17-1/2 in

Dimension Description

matte

Width

36 in

Length

24 in

Exhibition

Piranesi

Interpretative Labels

Label

Veduta dell"Anfiteatro Flavio, detto il Colosseo Piranesi, Giovanni Battista Mid-19th century Digital image scanned from "Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Complete Etchings" Vol.1 by John Wilton-Ely, 1994.