Interior View of the Temple Which is Believed to Have Been Dedicated to Juno, from Different views of Paestum
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 47.2 × 67 cm (18 5/8 × 26 7/16 in.); Plate: 48 × 68 cm (18 15/16 × 26 13/16 in.); Sheet: 56.2 × 76.5 cm (22 3/16 × 30 1/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
64571
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Among the last works created by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, who died on November 9,1778, these large prints belong to a series of 20 views of Paestum called Different Views of Some of the Remains of Three Great Edifices That Still Exist at the Center of the Ancient City of Pesto, or Posidonia [Paestum], Which Is Situated in Lucania The figures that animate the entire series and the final plate shown here were probably completed by his son, Francesco.
About the Artist
Giovanni Battista Piranesi · 1720–1778
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) was an Italian printmaker, architect, and antiquarian whose visionary etchings of Rome and imaginary prisons revolutionized architectural representation and profoundly influenced both Neoclassicism and Romanticism. Piranesi stands as one of the most important printmakers of the eighteenth century, fundamentally shaping European perceptions of ancient Rome an...