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]
Primary
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 3/8 in. (35 × 23.8 cm)
Image: 11 5/8 × 9 3/16 in. (29.6 × 23.3 cm)
Additional Dimension: 13 3/4 × 9 3/8 in. (35 × 23.8 cm)
Image: 11 5/8 × 9 3/16 in. (29.6 × 23.3 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Alvin Romansky, 1991.66.5
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Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number1991.66.5/40
On View
Not on viewThe Triumphal Bridge is the sixteenth-century name for an ancient bridge built by Nero that connected the Field of Mars with the valley between the Vatican and the Janiculum Hill. Until the 1870s, remains of its piers still existed and could be seen when the water was low. Piranesi has recorded the masonry technique and texture of the travertine blocks of one of the piers.
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