View of the Temple of Bacchus - SOLD

View of the Temple of Bacchus is an original etching realized by the Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi realized in 1758.

Complete title on the lower margin. 

18th Century impression, whose state of preservation is good and aged.

Ref. Hind no.48; Focillon no. 753.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi is well-known as an architect, an archaeologist, and, undoubtedly as the most important engraver of the 18th century: the leading artist in this field in the period going from Rembrandt to Goya.

Generations after him would continue to imagine Ancient Rome as he portrayed it in his magnificent “Vedute”. In the last period, Piranesi’s activities, above all as an editor, were characterized by a more commercial flavor. By this time he was already very famous, and created the series of decorative plates of antiquities, collected in his work “Vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi, tripodi, lucerne, ed ornamenti antichi disegnati ed incisi dal cav. Gio. Batt. Piranesi pubblicati l’anno MDCCLXXIIX”, 1778, (Vases, candelabras, grave, stones, sarcophagi, tripods, lamps, and ornaments designed and etched by Cav. Gio.Batt. Piranesi, published in the year 1778), printed and integrated by his son Francesco.