View of the Aqueducts of the Acqua Claudia and of S. Stefano Rotondo

Dateca. 1760, published 1787

MediumEngraving

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Dimensions8 5/8 x 12 1/2 in. (21.9 x 31.8 cm)

Object number2004.015.001

Label TextThis view seems to have been made from a vantage point in front of the church of Santa Maria in Domnica, which stood beside the main entrance to the Villa Mattei. The church is also called Santa Maria of the Navicella because of the small marble boat that stands in front of it. This image shows monuments from three different eras in the long history of Rome: Imperial, Early Christian, and Renaissance. At the left are the ruins of a branch of the Aqua Claudia built by the emperor Nero after the disastrous fire in 64 AD. The circular building is the church of San Stefano Rotondo, commissioned by Pope Simplicius in the fifth century. The navicella itself is an early 16th Century copy of an ancient sculpture.
Exhibition HistoryDiscovering Rome: Maps and Monuments of the Eternal City, Michael C. Carlos Museum, September 16, 2006 - January 14, 2007
Antichità, Teatro, Magnificenza: Renaissance and Baroque Images of Rome, Michael C. Carlos Museum, August 24 - November 17, 2013
Published ReferencesSarah McPhee, et al., Antichita, Teatro, Magnificenza: Renaissance and Baroque Images of Rome (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2013), 60 (checklist only).

ProvenancePurchased by MCCM from Gallery 539, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Status

Not on view

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