The So-Called Temple of Bacchus, Now the Church of S. Urban

Artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720 - 1778)

Titles

Veduta del Tempio di Bacco, inoggi Chiesa di S. Urbano

Date1758

MediumEtching

DimensionsPlatemark: 15 15/16 × 24 7/16 in. (40.5 × 62 cm) Sheet: 20 9/16 × 28 11/16 in. (52.2 × 72.8 cm)

Credit LineGift of Robert and Karen Hoehn

CultureItalian

PortfolioFrom the "Views of Rome"

Catalogue raisonnéHind, 48

Object numberPC2011.10.01

ClassificationsPrint Collection

DescriptionView of a temple in ruins with classical Roman architecture, great fissures in its façade, and covered in growing vines. Figures dressed in 18th-century clothing in front of and beside the building explore the attraction. One fallen piece of the temple rests on the immediate foreground, breaking out of the composition's frame and into the descriptive text below.

InterpretationsGift of Robert and Karen Hoehn

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