Spaccato del Ponte Fabricio oggi detto Quattro Capi... [Vertical Section of the Bridge of Fabricius, today called the Ponte dei Quattro Capi (Bridge of the Four Heads)], plate XX 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 13/16 × 27 3/8 in. (52.8 × 69.6 cm)
Additional Dimension: 14 3/4 × 20 9/16 in. (37.5 × 52.2 cm)
Image: 13 5/16 × 20 1/4 in. (33.8 × 51.5 cm)
Additional Dimension: 14 3/4 × 20 9/16 in. (37.5 × 52.2 cm)
Image: 13 5/16 × 20 1/4 in. (33.8 × 51.5 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Alvin Romansky, 1991.66.10
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Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number1991.66.10/40
On View
Not on viewThis print shows sections of the bridge piers, indicating also the different water levels according to the seasons. Piranesi notes that the consuls who executed the repairs buttressed the bridge piers and reinforced the frontage area (M).
Exhibitions
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
circa 1756