Pianta dell' Avanzo del Mausoleo di Adriano Imp...[Plan of the Remains of the Mausoleum of the Emperor Hadrian...], plate V from Volume IV of Le Antichità Romane [Roman Antiquities]
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
(Mogliano, Treviso, Italy, 1720–Rome, Italy, 1778)
NationalityItalian, Europe
Date1756
MediumEtching
DimensionsSheet: 20 3/4 × 14 11/16 in. (52.7 × 37.3 cm)
Additional Dimension: 13 3/4 × 9 5/16 in. (35 × 23.7 cm)
Image: 12 3/8 × 9 1/16 in. (31.4 × 23 cm)
Additional Dimension: 13 3/4 × 9 5/16 in. (35 × 23.7 cm)
Image: 12 3/8 × 9 1/16 in. (31.4 × 23 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Alvin Romansky, 1991.66.2
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Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number1991.66.2/40
On View
Not on viewThe bridge was built by the Emperor Hadrian in connection with his Mausoleum. It has three main arches. Before the canalization of the Tiber in the nineteenth century, three smaller arches connected it to the left bank, while two arches joined it to the right bank. It was made of travertine on the exterior, peperino on the interior. Completed in 134 A.D., it stood undamaged until 1450 when the parapets collapsed during a gathering of pilgrims. Pope Clement VII added the statues of Saints Peter and Paul in 1527, and Pope Clement IX added the series of angels by Bernini in 1669-71.
In order to reduce water resistance, the bases of the piers are pointed where they meet the current to form cutwaters. This print shows the plan of the bridge and the Mausoleum.
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