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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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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]

Primary (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)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Alvin Romansky, 1991.66.2
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number1991.66.2/40
On View
Not on view
Label Text
The 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.
Exhibitions
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Pianta dell' avanzo del Portico di Filippo [Plan of the remains of the Portico of Philip], plate XLVI from Volume IV of Le Antichità Romane [Roman Antiquities]
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1756
Veduta dell' avanzo di una delle Pile del Ponte Trionfale...[View of the remains of one of the supports of the Ponte Trionfale (Triumphal Bridge)], plate XIII from Volume IV of Le Antichità Romane [Roman Antiquities]
Veduta dell' avanzo di una delle Pile del Ponte Trionfale...[View of the remains of one of the supports of the Ponte Trionfale (Triumphal Bridge)], plate XIII from Volume IV of Le Antichità Romane [Roman Antiquities]
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1756
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Dimostrazione dell odierno avanzo del Teatro di Pompeo [Reconstruction of the present remains of the Theater of Pompey], plate XXXVIII from Volume IV of Le Antichità Romane [Roman Antiquities]
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1756
Image Not Available for Pianta degli avanzi del Portico d'Ottavia [Plan of the remains of the Portico of Octavia], plate XXXIX from Volume IV of Le Antichità Romane [Roman Antiquities]
Pianta degli avanzi del Portico d'Ottavia [Plan of the remains of the Portico of Octavia], plate XXXIX from Volume IV of Le Antichità Romane [Roman Antiquities]
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1756
Image Not Available for Avanzo della facciata interiore del portico di Ottavia...[Remains of the interior façade of the Portico of Octavia...], plate XL from Volume IV of Le Antichità Romane [Roman Antiquities]
Avanzo della facciata interiore del portico di Ottavia...[Remains of the interior façade of the Portico of Octavia...], plate XL from Volume IV of Le Antichità Romane [Roman Antiquities]
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1756
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Pianta dell'avanzo del Teatro di Marcello...[Plan of the remains of the Theatre of Marcellus], plate XXVI from Volume IV of Le Antichità Romane [Roman Antiqities]
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1756
Image Not Available for Spaccato di uno degli Archi di mezzo del Ponte d'Elio Adriano [Vertical section of one of the arches in the middle of the Bridge of Hadrian], plate XI from Volume IV of Le Antichità Romane [Roman Antiquities]
Spaccato di uno degli Archi di mezzo del Ponte d'Elio Adriano [Vertical section of one of the arches in the middle of the Bridge of Hadrian], plate XI from Volume IV of Le Antichità Romane [Roman Antiquities]
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1756
Image Not Available for Pianta del serraglio delle fiere fabbricato da Domiziano per uso dell' Anfiteatro... [Plan of the animal cages build by Domitian for the Amphitheater...], plate LIII from Volume IV of Le Antichità Romane [Roman Antiquities]
Pianta del serraglio delle fiere fabbricato da Domiziano per uso dell' Anfiteatro... [Plan of the animal cages build by Domitian for the Amphitheater...], plate LIII from Volume IV of Le Antichità Romane [Roman Antiquities]
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1756
Image Not Available for Spaccato del Mausoleo di Ottaviano Augusto...[Section of the Mausoleum of Augustus...], plate LXII from Volume II Le Antichità Romane [Roman Antiquities]
Spaccato del Mausoleo di Ottaviano Augusto...[Section of the Mausoleum of Augustus...], plate LXII from Volume II Le Antichità Romane [Roman Antiquities]
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
circa 1756
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Pianta del Tempio della Fortuna Virile, fabbricato da Servio Tullio Re de'Romani...[Plan of the Temple of Fortuna Virilis, build by Servius Tullius, King of the Romans...], plate XXXXVIIII from Volume IV of Le Antichità Romane [Roman Antiquities]
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1756
Image Not Available for Pianta del Ponte Ferrato detto dagl' Antiquari Cestio...[Plan of the Ponte Ferrato, called the Bridge of Cestius by antiquarians...], plate XXII from Volume IV of Le Antichità Romane [Roman Antiquities]
Pianta del Ponte Ferrato detto dagl' Antiquari Cestio...[Plan of the Ponte Ferrato, called the Bridge of Cestius by antiquarians...], plate XXII from Volume IV of Le Antichità Romane [Roman Antiquities]
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1756
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Spaccato degli Speroni, i quali servono di contrafforti al gran Fondamento del Maus. d'Elio Adriano [Vertical section of the buttresses which counterbalance the massive foundations of the Mausoleum of Hadrian], plate VII from Volume IV of Le Antichità Rom
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1756