The Palazzo Barberini
Piranesi's Rome — Bernini's palace for one of the city's great dynasties.
- Work
- View of the Palace of the Illustrious Barberini Family, from Vedute di Roma
- Artist / naturalist
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi
- Origin & date
- Rome, ca. 1750–1759
- Held by
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and keep.
Size
$19.00
The story
Etched between about 1750 and 1759, this view depicts the Palazzo Barberini on the Quirinal Hill, the family seat Gian Lorenzo Bernini helped design for one of 17th-century Rome's most powerful papal dynasties — Piranesi's caption credits Bernini by name, a rare instance of him crediting a specific architect within the Vedute series. Unlike the ancient ruins that dominate most of his views, the Barberini palace was still a functioning aristocratic residence in Piranesi's own century, giving this plate a different register: less elegy, more portrait of power. What to notice: Piranesi frames the palace across an open piazza, using the same dramatic scale tricks he applied to ancient Rome — tiny carriages and figures making the Baroque façade read as monumental as anything the Caesars built. Rome's ancient and Baroque grandeur, in his hands, were really the same subject.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s open-access release.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper: smooth, no glare.
- Color-managed to the source scan.
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