Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Plan of the Ponte Ferrato, Called the Bridge of Cestius by Antiquarians

Giovanni Battista Piranesi's original etching, "Plan of the Ponte Ferrato, Called the Bridge of Cestius by Antiquarians" depicts a plan of this important ancient bridge. This original Piranesi etching hails from the "Antichita Romane" and is the twenty-second plate, as so marked in the upper right border. This impression is printed upon fine, hand-made, laid, paper as published in Rome by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in 1756.

Original Etching by the 18th century Italian artist, Giovanni Battista Piranesi.

Plan of The Ponte Ferrato by Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Plan of the Ponte Ferrato, Called the Bridge of Cestius by Antiquarians

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Venice, 1720 - Rome, 1778)
#	Image	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Notes	-
01-		Plan of the Ponte Ferrato, Called the Bridge of Cestius by Antiquarians by Giovanni Battista Piranesi	Original Etching	1756	Catalogue # 490, First and Only State., illustrated on page 544, volume, I, Source: Antichita Romane	Sold
02.-		Veduta Interna della villa di Mecenate ('Internal View of the Villa of Maecenas') by Giovanni Battista Piranesi	Original Etching	1764 (Paris Ed: 1800-1807)	Arthur M. Hind, "Giovanni Battista Piranesi: A Critical Study", Da Capo Press, New York, 1922 (Reprinted, 1967). Catalogue #73, Source: Vedute di Roma.	Sold

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Title:	Plan of the Ponte Ferrato, Called the Bridge of Cestius by Antiquarians
Artist:	Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (Venice, 1720 - Rome, 1778)
Date:	1756
Medium:	Original Etching
Note:	Giovanni Battista Piranesi: In the field of the art of architecture one man stands well above the others. Beginning with his first Vedute di Roma etching in 1748, Giovanni Battista Piranesi fashioned an illustrious career which forever changed our manner of viewing man among his constructed creations.
	Giovanni Battista Piranesi's most acclaimed series of etchings are his Prisons, the Vedute di Roma and the Antichita Romane. First published in 1756, the Antichita Romane established Piranesi's reputation in Europe as the leading protagonist of Roman archaeology. A talented architect as well as an artist, Piranesi's aim in the Antichita was both to record the vanishing past for scholars and to inspire contemporary designers to emulate the great Roman achievements of the past.
	The complete Antichita Romane consists of two hundred and fifty large etchings and was initially published in four weighty volumes. Setting out a then new system of archaeological inquiry into the study of antiquity, Piranesi devoted the first volume to the urban structure of ancient Rome, particularly its walls, defenses, aqueducts and monuments. The second and third volumes dealt with the extensive remains of tombs and funerary moments around Rome. The fourth and final volume depicted the great feats of Roman engineering, such as bridges and monumental structures which contains some of the most impressive work from the entire series. Plan of the Ponte Ferrato, Called the Bridge of Cestius by Antiquarians hails from this volume and is the twenty-second plate, as so marked in the upper right border. Altogether, Giovanni Battista Piranesi submitted four etched plates to the Antichita showing various views and plans of this important ancient bridge.
Raisonne:	John Wilton-Ely, Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Complete Etchings, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1994, 2 vols.
	Catalogue # 490, First and Only State., illustrated on page 544, volume, I.
Source:	Antichita Romane
Size:	14 X 23 3/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon fine, hand-made, laid, paper as published in Rome by Piranesi in 1756. Centre crease, as always. It is a fine, early printing and in excellent condition throughout. Like all his etched work this original impression of Plan of the Ponte Ferrato, Called the Bridge of Cestius by Antiquarians clearly shows the stamp of Giovanni Battista Piranesi's genius.
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