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• 1 2018-11-12T15:35:56-08:00 Another View of the Temple of Concord 26 Altra Veduta degli avanzi del Pronao del Tempio della Concordia plain 2022-11-09T07:59:25-08:00 Title: Altra Veduta degli avanzi del Pronao del Tempio della Concordia. 1. Arco di Settimio Severo. 2. Santa Martina. Signature: Cavalier Piranesi F(ecit). Title: Another View of the ruins of the Pronaos of the Temple of Concord. Key: 1. Arch of Septimius Severus. 2. Santa Martina. Signature: Made by the Cavalier Piranesi. This “altra veduta” or “other view” of the Temple of Concord—specifically, of the “avanzi” or remains of its pronaos—is darker in tone than Piranesi’s other engravings of this ancient monument. While the temple is the primary subject of the following view, here, Piranesi sheds a harsh light on its contemporary environment. The temple is surrounded by a group of drunkards, gamblers, and rogues in the foreground, as well as an outcropping of temporary structures, most prominently including a stable and carriage house. It has been consumed by the banal and tawdry affairs of Roman contemporary life. Jeanne Morgan Zarucchi argues that the images Piranesi titles “other views” all “evoke scenes of poverty and pathos ... a darker vision of the life that goes on amid the crumbling ruins” (367). The prominent role of staffage figures in the scene highlights another side of the Grand Tour, one associated with decay, corruption, and vice (Zarucchi 368, Black 138). The apparent similarity between the figure groupings in this and the following view only serves to underscore their differences. For example, the horse on the left, whose bulbous behind faces viewers, is “laden with two large barrels” and, as a result, “can barely raise its hoof” from transporting excessive amounts of alcohol (Zarruchi 376). The doors of the carriage house creak open to reveal not only sinister figures in the shadows but, more importantly, a debased transformation of a formerly prestigious and historically significant monument into the degraded remains that the full title specifies. (ZL)
  
  To see this image in the Vedute di Roma, volume 17 of Piranesi’s Opere, click here.