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The Digital Piranesi

Field of Mars

Field of Mars / Campus Martius (Opere, vol 10)
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NOTE: layered map v10image57 has numbered map (large central background map) that is keyed to index on digital pp 36-39. 300 items are keyed.

Older videos of layered images have disappeared.

Catalogo for Ichnographia digital pp 32-34 [not a key: what's the relationship?]

Tav 3 and 4 have index, dig p39

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2. Plan of Rome and the Campus Martius, from Views of Rome (Opere, vol 16) This map, “Pianta di Roma e del Campo Marzo,” serves as something of an advertisement to Piranesi’s other works. But it also resembles an elaborate table of contents for distinct publications. With numbered items in the central map, Piranesi refers viewers to the surrounding index, which includes over four hundred buildings and monuments. From this index, he then directs viewers to his other works, instructing them, often with abbreviated directions, such as “see Antichita romane” (“V. Aa. Re.” [Vedi Antichita Romane”]) or “see Views of Rome” (V. Ve. Ra. [Vedi Vedute di Roma]). Piranesi’s system of references can be quite complex—certain buildings, such as the Pantheon, are glossed in the index with short essays, and a few, such as Castel Sant’Angelo and Saint Mary of the Angels point to a series of images. Animating these varied printed references, which guide viewers both within one image and across multiple volumes of Piranesi’s works, is the goal of this hyperlinked map.
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