Gruppo di Colonne, che regge due archi d'un gran Cortile ... (Group of columns which support two arches of a great courtyard ...)
1748
Artwork Information
… the sublime dreams of Piranesi, who seems to have conceived visions of Rome beyond what it boasted even in the meridian of its splendour. Savage as Salvator Rosa, fierce as Michel Angelo, and exuberant as Rubens, he has imagined scenes that would startle geometry, and exhaust the Indies to realise. He piles palaces on bridges, and temples on palaces, and scales Heaven with mountains of edifices. Yet what taste in his boldness! What grandeur in his wildness! What labour and thought both in his rashness and details!
(Horace Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England, 1765)
- Title
- Gruppo di Colonne, che regge due archi d'un gran Cortile ... (Group of columns which support two arches of a great courtyard ...)
- Production Date
- 1748
- Medium
- etching
- Dimensions
- 395 x 245 mm
- Credit Line
- Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, bequest of Dr Walter Auburn, 1982
- Accession No
- M1982/1/4/13
- Copyright
- No known copyright restrictions
- Department
- International Art
- Display Status
- Not on display
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