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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Record Details

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)

Credit Line

Gift of the Ernst Pulgram and Frances McSparran Collection

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

Print

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.

Primary Keywords

ancient italian styles and periods

inscriptions

monuments

rome (inhabited place)

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

people and culture

roma (province)

single built works

single built works by function

single built works by specific type

styles and periods

styles and periods by region

Rights

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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

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2007-sl-2.117/2007_2_117.jpg content_copy

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Portfolios

In public portfolios

Europe on Paper (43)

Ruins (120)