Paestum piranesi12/23/2023 ![]() Our impression, with these details, is from an intermediary state between the Boston proof and the Roman 1778 edition. One of these eight proof is an impression of the Vue des restes du derrière du pronaos du Temple de Neptune in a state which is not only before letters but also before the large massings of shade on the columns and in the foreground and before some details as the staff held by the leaning man with his back turned, on the right. Piranesi’s 1961 exhibition catalog (Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton) mentions eight recently discovered proofs of the Différentes vues series in the Library of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (of which seven are to date digitised on MFA’s website) and points out that « the Boston proofs have considerable technical interest in that several lack the strong massings of light and shade which were finally added in a plate such as the present one to bind the forms together in a Baroque unity. A vertical crease 80 mm from the right edge, with two 30 mm repaired tears top and bottom. Impression trimmed on the platemark top, thread margins on the three other sides, as in other working proofs of the same series. Annotation in pencil in the blank part bottom left: Antiquités de Paestum. Superb heavy black impression printed on laid watermarked paper (fleur-de-lys in a double circle, similar to Robison 36). Įxceptional working proof of an undescribed state, before some reworks in the landscape, before the letters in the subject and before the text in the bottom blank part of the plate. Plate XIV of the series of 20 plates and a frontispiece titled Différentes vues de quelques restes de trois grands édifices qui subsistent encore dans le milieu de l’ancienne ville de Pesto autrement Posidinia qui est située dans la Lucanie. ![]()
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