Giovanni Battista Piranesi etching ~ Piazza Campidoglio ~ Michelangelo architect

Description: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778)Veduta del Romano Campidoglio con Scalinata che va alla Chiesa d'Araceli (View of the Capitol, Rome, with the steps and Church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli to the left) etching, signed in plate l.r., from Volume 17 of Opere di Giambattista Piranesi (printed under the direction of his son Francesco by the Didot printing house in Paris, 1837-9) Piazza Campidoglio (Capital Square, location of of the chief government buildings) was designed by Michelangelo for Pope Paul III between 1534-49. Inscription content: Lettered in lower margin with a numbered key and the title: 1. Abitazione del Senator Romano 2. Museo ove si conservano le Statue Antiche / 3. Palazzo de Conservatori / 4. Statua equestre di Marco Aurelio di metallo Corintio; Inscribed, in plate, lower right: 5. Statue Colossali antiche di Castore e Polluce / 6. Trofei di Mario / 7. Colonna milliaria Aurea / 8. Leonesse di marmo Egizio; continues 'Architettura di Michelangelo Bonaroti'. At lower right 'Presso l'Autore a Strada Felice nel Palazzo Tomati vicino alla Trinità de' monti. A paoli due e mezzo' and 'Piranesi del. scol.' in the collections of MET Museum, National Gallery of Art, British Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, The National Museum of Western Art, Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of South Carolina and many other institutions visible image measures approximately: 22" W x 16 1/4" Hframe measures approximately: 29 1/8" W x 23 7/8" H Please note that shipping charges are inclusive of insurance, payment processing, and carrier fees. About Piazza del Campidoglio Redesigning the Piazza del Campidoglio on the Capitoline Hill was one of Michelangelo's most successful architectural achievements and one of the most perfectly realized examples of Renaissance urban planning. The project was only partially completed in his lifetime. Initially Michelangelo was asked to design a base for the ancient equestrian statue of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, which Paul III had moved from the Lateran to the Capitoline in 1538. His choice of an oval base is echoed in the oval pavement (from 1561). The triangular, double-ramp staircase in front of the Palazzo Senatorio (restored 1984) was carried out in 1544-52, but it would have been uncharacteristic for Michelangelo to adhere to fixed overall designs for over 30 years. After the election of Pius IV in 1559, the monumental stairway ramp (cordonata) up to the Piazza del Campidoglio was built and the oval steps around the piazza put in place. The year before Michelangelo's death, the façade of the Palazzo dei Conservatori was started according to a new set of drawings produced under his supervision, and the building was completed (1568-84) by Giacomo della Porta. The construction of a palazzo of the same design across the square, the Palazzo Nuovo, which established the symmetry of the composition, followed in 1603-60. S1.

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