View of Piazza Navona - SOLD

Piazza Navona  is an original etching realized by the italian artist  Giovanni Battista Piranesi in 1773. 

First roman Edition.

The state of preservation of the artwork is very good and aged.

Sheet dimension: 49x 72 cm. 

The artwork represents a beautiful scenery of Navona square in Rome, Navona is a public open space. It is built on the site of the Stadium of Domitian, built in the 1st century AD, and follows the form of the open space of the stadium. The ancient Romans went there to watch the agones games, and hence it was known as "The Circus Agonalis" "competition arena".The artwork 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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