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Piranesi's visual images are teeming with written texts. Ancient inscriptions and his own annotations call attention to relationships between word and image, materiality and history, and evidence and imagination. Our essays often emphasize Piranesi’s role as a writer and an artist.

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  1. Themes across Piranesi’s Works Jeanne Britton

Contents of this tag:

  1. View of the Pantheon
  2. Frontispiece with Statue of Minerva
  3. View of the Colosseum (1 of 2)
  4. Views of Rome Drawn and Engraved by Giambattista Piranesi Venetian Architect
  5. View of the Temple of the Sibyl in Tivoli
  6. View of the Fountain and the Grotto of Egeria Outside the Porta Capena
  7. Ruins of the Antonine Baths
  8. View of the Arch of Titus (1 of 2)
  9. View of the Arch of Constantine
  10. Interior View of the Colosseum (1 of 2)
  11. View of the Remains of the Baths of Diocletian
  12. Interior View of the Villa of Maecenas
  13. View of the Sepulcher of Piso Licinianus on the Ancient Via Appia
  14. Remains of the Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli
  15. View of the Site of the Ancient Roman Forum
  16. View of the Animal Cages Built by the Emperor Domitian for the Colosseum
  17. View of the Basilica San Giovanni Laterano
  18. Egyptian Obelisk
  19. View of the Remains of the Forum of Nerva (1 of 2)
  20. View of the Temple of Bacchus
  21. Another View of the Temple of the Sibyl in Tivoli (2 of 2)
  22. View of the Monument Erected by the Emperor Titus Commemorating His Restoration of the Aqueducts of the Anio and Claudia
  23. View of the Piazza della Rotonda [the Pantheon]
  24. Interior view of the so-called Temple of the Tosse near Tivoli
  25. View of the Villa d'Este in Tivoli
  26. View of the Tomb of the Plautius Family
  27. View of the Heliocaminus used in Winter
  28. View of the Fountainhead of the Acqua Felice
  29. View of the Palazzo di Montecitorio
  30. View of the Temple of Hercules in the City of Cori
  31. Interior view of the Temple of Bacchus
  32. View of the Fountainhead of the Acqua Paola
  33. View of the Temple of Cybele in the Piazza of the Bocca della Verità
  34. Meeting Hall in Hadrian’s Villa
  35. Remains of the Temple of the God Canopus at Hadrian’s Villa in Tivoli
  36. View of the Archway of the Consuls Dolabella and Silanus
  37. Plan of the Baths of Titus