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Veduta del Ponte e Castello Sant'Angelo from Le Vedute di Roma (View of the Pont 1754 18th Century 15 in. x 23 1/4 in. x 35 in. (38.1 cm x 59.06 cm x 88.9 cm) Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Venice, 1720 - 1778, Rome) Primary Object Type: Print Medium and Support: etching (Hind 29, iv) Credit Line: Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. James Guthrie, Camden, Arkansas. 2003.020.003 Accession Number: 2003.020.003 Comments: This bridge across the Tiber River is named "Sant'Angelo" after St. Michael Archangel, as is the fortress at which it ends. The Ponte and Castel S. Angelo are two of Rome's most recognizable sites. The bridge boasts a series of sculptures of angels by the great Baroque artist Gianlorenzo Bernini. Built on the 2nd-century ruins of the round tomb of the Roman emperor Hadrian, the Castel S. Angelo was used as a papal fortress and prison as early as the 10th century. Visible in Piranesi's etching at the top of the fortress is a statue of the warrior archangel Michael. Also visible in the distance is the façade of St. Peter's. This head-on view is common today, but in the 1750s the wide boulevard that allows it had not been built. The crowded neighborhood in front of the Piazza S. Pietro, torn down by Mussolini to build that boulevard, is discernable in the etching. Piranesi was able to create the perfect souvenir view of these three important sites by looking back from a point on the riverbank a little farther upstream.

Keywords:

• Italian
• etching
• landscape

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• Class:Fine Arts:drawing:Mediterranean:Italian
• Class:Fine Arts:print:intaglio:etching
• Subject:nature:landscape

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