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Veduta del Ponte Fabrizio from Le Antichitá Romane, vol. IV (View of the Ponte F 1756 18th Century 15 1/2 in. x 23 1/2 in. (39.37 cm x 59.69 cm) Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Venice, 1720 - 1778, Rome) Primary Object Type: Print Medium and Support: etching Credit Line: Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. James Guthrie, Camden, Arkansas. 2003.020.006 Accession Number: 2003.020.006 Comments: This bridge is the oldest in the city of Rome, built in 62 B.C.E. In Piranesi's day it was still called after the street superintendent who had it constructed, one L. Fabricius. Today it is called Ponte dei Quattro Capi, or Bridge of the Four Heads, after two double-headed sculptures on its parapet. As it was when Piranesi studied it in the 1750, the Ponte Fabricio is still nearly intact. Piranesi clearly admired the Roman engineers who built this long-lasting monument. He carefully chose a viewpoint that displays the structure of the massive arches, the niches and buttresses that lighten and support them, and the details of the masonry. He uses the precise, even line that he also uses for archaeological renderings like that of the Thomas Jenkins candelabrum. Even so, the forceful diagonal composition and the sharp contrasts of light and shade make this an image that is more dramatic than academic.

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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