ART MUSEUM: Reopening 1/28/2025
GiveArco di Settimio Severo [The Arch of Septimius Severus] from the series Vedute di Roma [Views of Rome]
![Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778), Arco di Settimio Severo [The Arch of Septimius Severus] from the series Vedute di Roma [Views of Rome], 1759](https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/sites/default/files/mh_1972_74_6_p_rii_v1-cdm_0.jpg?bc=node/1359 "Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778), Arco di Settimio Severo [The Arch of Septimius Severus] from the series Vedute di Roma [Views of Rome], 1759")
![Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778), Arco di Settimio Severo [The Arch of Septimius Severus] from the series Vedute di Roma [Views of Rome], 1759](https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/slideshow_thumbnail/public/mh_1972_74_6_p_rii_v1-cdm_0.jpg?itok=dpNV5JEh "Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778), Arco di Settimio Severo [The Arch of Septimius Severus] from the series Vedute di Roma [Views of Rome], 1759")
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista
Italian (1720-1778)
Place made:
Europe; Italy; Rome
Arco di Settimio Severo [The Arch of Septimius Severus] from the series Vedute di Roma [Views of Rome], 1759 plate; 1777 or before, print
Etching; black ink on ivory laid paper
Mat: 26 in x 34 in; 66 cm x 86.4 cm; Sheet: 21 1/8 in x 29 1/4 in; 53.7 cm x 74.3 cm; Plate: 14 7/8 in x 22 7/8 in; 37.8 cm x 58.1 cm; Image: 14 5/8 in x 22 5/8 in; 37.1 cm x 57.5 cm
Transfer from the Mount Holyoke College Library
MH 1972.74.6.P.RII
Events And Links
February 21, 2012 | Anne Greer and Fredric B. Garonzik Family Gallery
Vedute di Roma
Gallery Talk
Gallery talk by Emily Wood, Art Museum Advisory Board Fellow and Exhibition Curator
![Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778), Arco di Settimio Severo [The Arch of Septimius Severus] from the series Vedute di Roma [Views of Rome], 1759](https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/events_list_image/public/images/mh_1972_74_6_p_rii_v1.jpg?itok=oClrVujO "Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778), Arco di Settimio Severo [The Arch of Septimius Severus] from the series Vedute di Roma [Views of Rome], 1759")
January 22, 2013 to May 26, 2013
Vedute di Roma
This exhibition explores the multiplicity of views of Rome that appear in prints produced from the 16th to the 18th century. Artists such as Giovanni Battista Piranesi captured the shifting balance between ancient and modern that defined the Eternal City as it went through three centuries of...
February 7, 2013 | Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College
"The most glorious place in the universal world"
Rome in the Age of the Grand Tour
Lecture
Lecture by John Pinto, Howard Crosby Butler Memorial Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
