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Nuova Pianta di Roma
Nolli, Giovanni Battista; Pronti, Domenico
Italian (1701-1756); Italian (active late 18th century)
Place made: 
Europe; Italy; Rome
Nuova Pianta di Roma, 1748 Nolli map; 1795 Pronti prints
Engraving on paper laid down on Japanese paper
Overall: 76 in x 94 in; 193 cm x 238.8 cm; Sheet/Image: 73 in x 90 1/2 in; 185.4 cm x 229.9 cm
Bequest of Helene Brosseau Black (Class of 1931)
MH 1991.4.681.a-j
Resources and References:

The Interactive Nolli Map Website, University of Oregon, http://nolli.uoregon.edu.
Imago Urbis: Giuseppe Vasi’s Grand Tour of Rome, University of Oregon, http://vasi.uoregon.edu/index.htm.
The Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae Digital Collection, The University of Chicago Library, http://speculum.lib.uchicago.edu.

 

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Events And Links

Gallery talk
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

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Giovanni Battista; Domenico Pronti, Nuova Pianta di Roma, 1748 Nolli map; 1795 Pronti prints
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 

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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...

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