40 YEARS 40
our fortieth-anniversary show
our fortieth-anniversary show
- French School, Adoration of the Shepherds
- Mantegna, Bacchanal with a Wine Vat
- Robetta, Adoration of the Magi
- Dürer, The Virgin with the Infant Child
- van Leyden, St. Francis of Assisi
- Altdorfer, Dido
- after Raphael, Raphael and His Mistress
- Pencz, The Taking of Carthage
- Brosamer, Nude Woman in Profile
- Barocci, Madonna and Child in the Clouds
- Zucchi, Design for an Ornate Ceiling
- Goudt, Tobias with the Angel
- Della Bella, Le Reposoir du Saint Sacrement
- Rembrandt, Woman Sitting Half-Dressed Beside a Stove
- Challe, Fantasy Capriccio of a Roman Palace
- Piranesi, St. Peter’s
- Bonet, The Lady ta King Coffee; The Milk Woman
- Goya, Felipe IV, Rey de España
- Meryon, Saint-Etienne-du-Mont, Paris
- Whistler, Thames Police
- Manet, Queue Devant la Boucherie (Siège de Paris)
- Doré, Children’s Ward in a London Hospital
- Buhot, La Maison Maudite
- Guérard, Eventail: Oiseaux dans les Roseaux
- Rivière, La Village de La Chapelle
- Auriol, Bois Frissonnants
- Lepère, Les Laveuses (Les Blanchisseuses)
- Toulouse-Lautrec , La Troupe de Mademoiselle Eglantine
- Cezanne, Self Portrait at the Easel
- Sloan, Turning Out the Light
- Goodwin, Durham with the Cathedral
- Villon, Musiciens Chez le Bistro
- Kollwitz, Selbstbildnis
- McBey, Farm Scene at Hatford
- Beckmann, Umarmung (Embrace)
- Drewes, The City (Carcassonne)
- Sutherland, Number Forty-Nine
- de Chirico, Scuola di Gladiatori II
- Friedlander, 3 A.M.
- Marsh, Coney Island Beach
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16. Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) St. Peter’s with the Forecourt and Colonnades: Bird’s Eye View |
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St. Peter’s with the Forecourt and Colonnades: Bird’s Eye View
Etching, 1775, from Vedute di Roma, Hind 120 i/iii, 472 x 705 mm. Fine, bright impression from the first Paris edition, which was also the first edition, on laid paper without visible watermark, with good margins all around; the usual flattened vertical center fold.; a pale grey stain near the obelisk, looking like diluted and mis-wiped printer’s ink. The view was a challenge even for Piranesi, as there is no place in Rome, short of an elevated balloon, from which it could be seen as depicted. It was necessary to work from more ground-level views and extrapolate, a task done here with extraordinary virtuosity. Probably no other view of the Vatican so successfully captures the sheer vastness of the structure.
