Senatus populusque Romanus / monumenta marmorea magistratuum / triumphorumque ab urbe condita ad / tempora divi Augusti ruderibus in foro / egestis eruta impensa Al ex(andri) Farnesii card(inalis) / Pauli III Pont(ificis) Max(imi) nepot(is) in Capitolio p(osita), from Piranesi's Lapides Capitolini (1762) / Giovanni Battista Piranesi
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- Accession Number
- 2007/2.117
- Title
- Senatus populusque Romanus / monumenta marmorea magistratuum / triumphorumque ab urbe condita ad / tempora divi Augusti ruderibus in foro / egestis eruta impensa Al ex(andri) Farnesii card(inalis) / Pauli III Pont(ificis) Max(imi) nepot(is) in Capitolio p(osita), from Piranesi's Lapides Capitolini (1762)
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Artist Life Dates
- Venice, 1720 - 1778, Rome
- Medium and Support
- engraving, printed in black ink on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1762
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- Italy (nation)
- Lazio (region)
- Roma (province)
- Rome (inhabited place)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Italy (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Lazio (region)
- Creation Place 4
- Roma (province)
- Creation Place 5
- Rome (inhabited place)
- Inscription
- Signed, lower left between image and image frame: Piranesi F.
- Signed again at lower left of text plate: Piranesi F.
- No watermark present (watermarks attest to editions issued from the Piranesi workshop; see Taschen in Catalog notes).
- Signature could represent "Piranesi fecit," or Francesco Piranesi, Giovanni's son who shared the elder's workshop.
- Dimensions
- 59.06 cm x 127 cm (23 1/4 in. x 50 in.)
- Century
- 18th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- black and white print
- Secondary Object Classification
- Books and Folios
- Secondary Object Type
- sheet
- Physical Description
- Large double-folio print, with fold marks. Contains various monuments and their text from ancient Rome. Title plate beneath print indicates that the fragments were from ancient Rome and found in various ancient ruins, with the exception of fragment XLIX, currently (at time of print) in the collection of the Collegio Romano, a building then housing the Jesuits' Rome seminary.
- Print is patched. Separate plate marks are visible between image and inscription. The image is patched from four segments, while the text below is patched from two segments. Paper bears no watermark. Folio fold marks are noted on copy in file. Large text portions read as follows:
- Inscription 1 (in image plate, center): senatus populusque Romanus / monumenta marmorea magistratuum / triumphorumque ab urbe condita ad / tempora divi Augusti ruderibus in foro / egestis eruta impensa Al ex(andri) Farnesii card(inalis) / Pauli III Pont(ificis) Max(imi) nepot(is) in Capitolio p(osita)
- Inscription 2 (in separate text plate attached at bottom): Lapides Capitolini / Sive Fastorum fragmenta, quos Verrius Flaccus, Caii et Lucii, Augusti Nepotum, praeceptor ase dispositos in inferiore fori parte conlocaverat, nunc primum edita prout cermuntur in Capitolio servata / nempe characteris et Lapidum forma, additis ad ornatum degantioribus aliquot veteribus sigillis, et anaglyplus / Fragmentum XLIX in Collegio Romano Patrum Societatis Jesu adservatum
- Subject Matter
- Monuments erected in ancient Rome, and their inscriptions. Text reads: X.
- Secondary Keywords
- buildings and the land
- document genres
- document genres by form
- early western world
- europe (continent)
- geographic and political locations
- information forms
- italy (nation)
- lazio (region)
- mediterranean
- objects we use
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- roma (province)
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- styles and periods by region
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 4602 x 2154
- File Size
- 1 MB
- Record
- 2007/2.117
- Link to this Item
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"Senatus populusque Romanus / monumenta marmorea magistratuum / triumphorumque ab urbe condita ad / tempora divi Augusti ruderibus in foro / egestis eruta impensa Al ex(andri) Farnesii card(inalis) / Pauli III Pont(ificis) Max(imi) nepot(is) in Capitolio p(osita), from Piranesi's Lapides Capitolini (1762); Giovanni Battista Piranesi." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2007-sl-2.117/2007_2_117.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 04, 2024.