Chimneypiece
Also titled Schoorsteenmantel
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Mogliano Veneto, 1720–1778)
1761 - 1769
- Medium
- marble (rock)
- Classification
- relief (sculpture)
- Dimensions
- height 133 cm x width 193 cm x weight 524 kg
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of the Provincie Noord-Holland
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
This chimneypiece was designed and made by the renowned Italian architect Piranesi, who incorporated in it fragments of ancient Roman sculpture. Piranesi here applied his archaeological interest in Classical antiquity to an innovative design in a Neoclassical style. The Amsterdam banker John Hope bought the chimneypiece from Piranesi in Rome.
