Veduta Interna Del Pronao del Pantheon
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), etching, Veduta Interna Del Pronao del Pantheon, 1756, First Edition, from the series Le Antichita Romane, Bouchard e Gravier 1756. Reference: Focillon 171, Wilton-Ely 306. In very good condition, with full margins, 5 1/4 x 8, the sheet 8 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches.
A fine delicately printed impression printed on medium cream laid paper.
An interior view of the porch of the Pantheon.
Piranesi developed the plates of the Antichita Romane (Roman Antiquities) after eight years of careful study and excavation. His aim, as with all his archaeological publications, was both to record the vanishing past, and to inspire designers to emulate these past achievements.