Temple of Janus (Tempio de Giano)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi1748

Details

Title: Temple of Janus (Tempio de Giano)
Creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Date Created: 1748
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower right: “Piranesi fecit.”; inscribed, upper right: “Tav. 11.”
Set or Series Title: Some Views of Triumphal Arches and Other Monuments Erected by the Romans… (Alcune Vedute di Archi Trionfali…)
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), before 1953
Materials & Techniques: Etching on laid paper
Keywords: architecture, Italy, Rome, temples
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: First Paris edition, 1800–1807; loose sheet, not bound in volume
Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 130 mm x 266 mm (5.12 in. x 10.47 in.).
Bibliography: Focillon 52; Hind (1922) p. 75; Wilton-Ely 114 and p. 156 with remark: “Arch of Janus Quadrifrons with the so-called Arch of the Argentari or Money-changers to left”
Associated People: Created by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778)
Accession Number: 1973.D1.38.32a

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