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Prospetto dell' Arco Trionfale
Prospetto dell' Arco Trionfale fatto inalzare dalla Nobilta Romana su la Piazza del Popolo in occasione dell' ingresso in Roma li 3 Luglio 1800 Di N. Sig. PP. Pio VII.
Benedetto Piernicoli Capitno. Ingegnere inv. et dis. Pietro Ruga e Midi Pietro inc.
[Italy, c.1810.]
Engraving, image 210 x 440mm.
The reception in Rome of Pope Pius VII (1742 - 1823), born Count Barnaba Niccolò Maria Luigi Chiaramonti, Pope from March 14, 1800 to August 20, 1823.
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Veduta della Piazza di Monte-cavallo.
Veduta della Piazza di Monte-cavallo.
R. Ruga inc. 1826.
In Roma presso Giac. Antonelli alle Convertite No. 179. B. e in Piazza di Sciarra No. 233.
Engraving with very large margins. 290 x 340mm (11½ x 13½").
A view from the Quirinal Hill, with the two colossal marble statues of the 'Horse Tamers' (which gave the Quirinal its medieval name, Monte Cavallo), with the obelisk from the Mausoleum of Augustus between them. The figures are usually identified as the 'Dioscuri' (twins Castor and Pollux), but an alternative theory is that it is a double representation of Alexander and his horse Bucephalus. Either way, the inscriptions 'Opus Phidiae' (shown here) and 'Opus Praxiteles' ('the work of Phidias & Praxiteles) are discredited. Their size prevented them being looted by Napoleon
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