Veduta dell'avanzo del Castello, che prendendo una porzione dell'Acqua Giulia [graphic] / Piranesi Architetto fec. [ca. 1753]

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Veduta dell'avanzo del Castello, che prendendo una porzione dell'Acqua Giulia [graphic] / Piranesi Architetto fec. [ca. 1753]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49666259

Depicts the ruins of the Roman aqueduct, Aqua Julia.

1 print on medium weight cream laid paper : etching, b&w ; plate 41 x 61 cm., sheet 51 x 75 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

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The son of Angelo and Laura Piranesi, Giambattista Piranesi first came to Rome in 1740 as a young architect from Venice. He studied Roman history with an older brother, studied engraving in the studio of Giuseppe Vasi, as well as the art of perspective. In 1743, he traveled to Naples and studied painting, returning to Venice for a year when he became ill. He returned to Rome eventually moving to the Strada Felice at the Palazzo Tomati. He never left Rome after 1745 except briefly to Etruscan sit...