Giovanni Battista PiranesiItalian, 1720–1778Capitol
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Not on view at present
Where is “Capitol” now? Collection: SMK — National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.
Copenhagen, Denmark
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
- Checked
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- KKSgb9860/39
In the catalog
Sources
- SMK
- Image: SMK — National Gallery of Denmark — public domain
In the life of Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The whole lifec. 1755
Daughter born: Laura Piranesi
1756
Publishes “Le Antichità Romane”
The multi-volume edition of etchings “Roman Antiquities” gathered the monuments of ancient Rome, capitals, sarcophagi, vases, funerary inscriptions and plans of buildings. In it Piranesi was the first to distort the real proportions of well-known buildings and to “ruin” them, and on the frontispiece, dedicated to the Vatican librarian G. G. Bottari, he depicted a street with a phantasmagoric jumble of vases, busts, obelisks, pyramids and statues of pharaohs.
1757 · Award
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
![View of the Remains of the Praetorian Fort [the Poecile] in Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1770](https://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUAM:INV165626_dynmc/full/!2400,2400/0/default.jpg)
