View of Basilica and S. Peter Square

View of Basilica and S. Peter Square  is an original etching realized by the italian artist  Giovanni Battista Piranesi in 1748

Very precoius full margin edition. Complete title on the lower margin of plate. 

Cat. Ficacci Ed. Taschen n.874

Cat. Hind n. 3 state IV/VII

Cat. Focillon n. 787

The state of preservation of the artwork is good except for very light folds along the margin and very little tear.

The artwork represents a beautiful scenery of Basilica of Saint Peter and his colonades,.The print is characterized by soft and delicate strokes that define the composition in a balance and harmony

Giovanni Battista Piranesi  is well-known as an architect, an archaeologist and, undoubtedly as the most important engraver of the 18th century: the leading artist in this field in the period going from Rembrandt to Goya.

Generations after him would continue to imagine Ancient Rome as he portrayed it in his magnificent “ Vedute ”. In the last period, Piranesi’s activities, above all as an editor, were characterised by a more commercial flavour. By this time he was already very famous, and created the series of decorative plates of antiquities, collected in his work “Vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi, tripodi, lucerne, ed ornamenti antichi disegnati ed incisi dal cav. Gio. Batt. Piranesi pubblicati l’anno MDCCLXXIIX”, 1778, (Vases, candelabras, grave,stones, sarcophagi, tripods, lamps, and ornaments designed and etched by Cav. Gio.Batt. Piranesi, published in the year 1778), printed and integrated by his son Francesco.

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