Giovanni Battista PiranesiItalian, 1720–1778Muurconstructie
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Where is “Muurconstructie” now? Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Unknown.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
About the work
Museum text in Dutch
Gezicht op een muurconstructie. Titel in vlak rechtsonder.
Rijksmuseum
Details
- Accession number
- RP-P-OB-39.500
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
In the life of Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The whole life1762
Publishes “The Campus Martius of Ancient Rome”
In 1762 the series of etchings “Campo Marzio dell'antica Roma” was printed; like the other series of those years, it already shows the hallmarks of his style: a striving for monumentality, for majestic buildings and spaces hard for the eye to grasp.
1763
A papal commission for the Lateran, never realised
In 1763 Pope Clement XIII commissioned Piranesi to build the choir of the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano, but the work never materialised. The age of monumental building in Rome was over, and commissions were few.
1765
Dispute with Mariette: the “Dialogue on Architecture”
In his “Letter” of 1764 the French connoisseur P.-J. Mariette called the art of the Etruscans and Romans derivative and imitative, and that of the Greeks original and unsurpassed. Piranesi answered with the “Dialogue on Architecture” (1765), stressing the technical perfection of Roman buildings and their creative reworking of tradition rather than copying.
![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)
![[Landschaft mit einem viereckigen Turm; Landscape with a Square Tower; Paysage à la tour carrée], Rembrandt, 1650](https://diglib.hab.de/varia/haum/rembrandt-ab3-0251/max/000001.jpg)
![[Landschaft mit einem viereckigen Turm; Landscape with a Square Tower; Paysage à la tour carrée], Rembrandt, 1650](https://diglib.hab.de/varia/haum/rembrandt-v3-4664/max/000001.jpg)
