Piranesi’s Rome and the Classical Imaginary Exhibition Checklist

Piranesi's Rome and the Classical Imaginary

Etchings and engravings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Alessandro Specchi, and Domenico Pronti
Thacher Gallery
Dec. 4, 2025-Feb. 15, 2026

Exhibition Checklist

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Roman Forum with the Arch of Septimius in the Foreground
From Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)
Etching.
c. 1760–78
Collection of the Mills College Art Museum at Northeastern University, Oakland

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
View of the Exterior of the Great Basilica of St. Peter at the Vatican
From Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)
Etching
c. 1750
Collection of the Mills College Art Museum at Northeastern University, Oakland

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
View of the Piazza del Popolo
From Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome).
Etching
c. 1750
Collection of the Mills College Art Museum at Northeastern University, Oakland

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
View of the Piazza Spagna
From Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)
Etching
c. 1750
Collection of the Mills College Art Museum at Northeastern University, Oakland

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Interior View of the Pantheon
From Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)
Etching
1768
Gift of Mrs. William Henshaw, Collection of the Mills College Art Museum at Northeastern University, Oakland

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Prisoners on a Projecting Platform
From Carceri d’Invenzione (Imagined Prisons)
Etching and engraving
Late 18th Century (?)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Evers, Collection of the Mills College Art Museum at Northeastern University, Oakland

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Elevation and Plan of the Aqua Virgo Aqueduct
From Antichità di Roma (Roman Antiquities), Rome, 1756
Etching
c. 1756
Gift of Dr. Lynn White, Jr., Collection of the Mills College Art Museum at Northeastern University, Oakland

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Arch with the Shell Ornament
From the Carceri d’Invenzione (Imagined Prisons)
Etching and engraving
Late 18th Century (?)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Evers, Collection of the Mills College Art Museum at Northeastern University, Oakland

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
View of St. Peter's Square and Basilica
From Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)
Etching
c. 1750
Collection of the Donohue Rare Book Room, University of San Francisco

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Nave View of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican
From Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)
Etching
c . 1750
Collection of the Donohue Rare Book Room, University of San Francisco

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Group of Caryatids
From Vasi, candelabri, cippi ... (Vases, candelabras, gravestones…), Rome, 1778
Etching
c. 1770-78
Collection of the Donohue Rare Book Room, University of San Francisco

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Monumental Tablet
From the Grotteschi (Grotesques)
c. 1750
Etching
Collection of the Donohue Rare Book Room, University of San Francisco

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Dedication to Giovanni Bottari
From Antichità Romane (Roman Antiquities)
Etching
c. 1748
Collection of the Donohue Rare Book Room, University of San Francisco

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
View of Flavian Amphitheater, called the Colosseum
From Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)
Etching
Early 19th century
Collection of the Donohue Rare Book Room, University of San Francisco

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
View of the Façade of the Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem
From Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)
Etching
c. 1750
Collection of the Donohue Rare Book Room, University of San Francisco

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
View of the Interior of the Church of S. Costanza
From Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)
Etching
c. 1750
Collection of the Donohue Rare Book Room, University of San Francisco

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
View of the Rear Entrance of the Basilica of S. Maria Maggiore
From Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)
Etching
c. 1750
Collection of the Donohue Rare Book Room, University of San Francisco

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Title Page
From Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)
Etching
c. 1750
Collection of the Donohue Rare Book Room, University of San Francisco

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Plan of a Spacious and Magnificent College
From Opere Varie di Architettura… Rome, 1750
(Various Works of Architecture…)
Etching
c. 1750
Collection of the Donohue Rare Book Room, University of San Francisco

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Fantasy of Ruins with a Statue of Minerva 
From Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)
Etching
c. 1750
Collection of the Donohue Rare Book Room, University of San Francisco

Alessandro Specchi
View of the Montecitorio Palace
Etching and engraving
1699
Collection of the Donohue Rare Book Room, University of San Francisco

Alessandro Specchi
Prospect of the New Ripetta Naval Shipyard
Etching and engraving
1704
Collection of the Donohue Rare Book Room, University of San Francisco

Domenico Pronti
Arch of Constantine
From Nuova collezione di vedute di Roma…, Rome, c. 1820
(New Collection of Views of Rome, Ancient and Modern)
Engraving
Collection of the Donohue Rare Book Room, University of San Francisco