PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista (1720-1778). Le Antichità Romane. Rome: Stamperia Salomoni, 1785[4].
PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista (1720-1778). Le Antichità Romane. Rome: Stamperia Salomoni, 1785[4]. Together 4 volumes, 2o (531 x 410 mm). Letterpress title to vol.I, one etched portrait frontispiece of Piranesi by Francisco Piranesi; 3 etched titles; 2 engraved index leaves; one double-page etched dedication to public and posterity (second edition, first state); 245 etched plates on 212 leaves (many double-page or folding). (Light browning to a few plates, some light mostly marginal staining.) Contemporary half vellum and boards (light rubbing and staining). Second edition of Piranesi's magnum opus , first published in 1756. Le Antichità Romane crowned Piranesi's already well-established reputation and "established [him] as the foremost artistic proponent of Roman architecture" (Robinson, Piranesi , 1986, p.11). The son of a stonemason, Piranesi trained in the architectural studio of his maternal uncle, Matteo Lucchesi and possibly with the artist and stage designer Ferdinando Bibiena at Venice before travelling to Rome as part of the Venetian delegation to honour the newly elected Pope Benedict XIV. Piranesi's early enthusiasm for antiquity was further excited at Rome, and the discoveries at Herculaneaum, which Piranesi visited, heightened his own and others' fascination with ancient ruins. Le Antichità Romane depicts archaeological monuments and sites, sepulchral monuments, reconstructions of engineering feats, ancient bridges, baths, and other structures; his concern for scholarship is evident in the plans, maps and inscriptions. The 1784 date of the title page, was neatly replaced by 1785. Wilton-Ely 279 ff.; Focillon pp.297-310; Hind pp.83-84.
PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista (1720-1778). Le Antichità Romane. Rome: Stamperia Salomoni, 1785[4].
PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista (1720-1778). Le Antichità Romane. Rome: Stamperia Salomoni, 1785[4]. Together 4 volumes, 2o (531 x 410 mm). Letterpress title to vol.I, one etched portrait frontispiece of Piranesi by Francisco Piranesi; 3 etched titles; 2 engraved index leaves; one double-page etched dedication to public and posterity (second edition, first state); 245 etched plates on 212 leaves (many double-page or folding). (Light browning to a few plates, some light mostly marginal staining.) Contemporary half vellum and boards (light rubbing and staining). Second edition of Piranesi's magnum opus , first published in 1756. Le Antichità Romane crowned Piranesi's already well-established reputation and "established [him] as the foremost artistic proponent of Roman architecture" (Robinson, Piranesi , 1986, p.11). The son of a stonemason, Piranesi trained in the architectural studio of his maternal uncle, Matteo Lucchesi and possibly with the artist and stage designer Ferdinando Bibiena at Venice before travelling to Rome as part of the Venetian delegation to honour the newly elected Pope Benedict XIV. Piranesi's early enthusiasm for antiquity was further excited at Rome, and the discoveries at Herculaneaum, which Piranesi visited, heightened his own and others' fascination with ancient ruins. Le Antichità Romane depicts archaeological monuments and sites, sepulchral monuments, reconstructions of engineering feats, ancient bridges, baths, and other structures; his concern for scholarship is evident in the plans, maps and inscriptions. The 1784 date of the title page, was neatly replaced by 1785. Wilton-Ely 279 ff.; Focillon pp.297-310; Hind pp.83-84.
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