VEDUTA DELL INSIGNE BASILICA VATICANA… ENGRAVING. PIRANESI. ROME, ITALY, CIRCA 1775.

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Reference: ZF135455

Veduta dell\\' famous Basilica Vaticana coll\\' wide Portico, and adjacent Piazza. Recorded. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Rome, Italy, circa 1775. It has faults. Titled on a plate, the engraving presents a view of St. Peter's Square in the Vatican with the Roman church. The first edition was part of the Views of Rome by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Venice, 1720–Rome, 1778), published around 1760 (several experts date this engraving closer to 1775). Compare with the copy preserved at the Uffizi Gallery (Florence, Italy), the one at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (USA), the one at the Harvard Art Museum (USA), or the one at the National Library (Madrid, Spain). The plate is preserved at the Chalcographie in Rome.

· Size: 73x0,1x52 cms

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