哈德良别墅（Tivoli）小浴室中的八角形房间 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	哈德良别墅（Tivoli）小浴室中的八角形房间
品名（英）	The Octagonal Room in the Small Baths at the Villa of Hadrian (Tivoli)
入馆年号	1994年，1994.20
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	Giovanni Battista Piranesi【1720 至 1778】【意大利人】
创作年份	公元 1772 - 公元 1782
创作地区
分类	图画（Drawings）
尺寸	15 1/2 x 21 3/4英寸 (39.4 x 55.3厘米)
介绍（中）	威尼斯人皮拉内西（Piranesi）是活跃的绘图员，设计师，建筑师，考古学家和理论家，但正是作为版画家，他获得了最持久的名声。他技术精湛、极具影响力的蚀刻版画反映了他对古董的兴趣，并为欧洲各地的观众提供了丰富的视觉记录，既考古又诗意，讲述了古罗马的辉煌。这幅画描绘了蒂沃利哈德良别墅浴场中的一个八角形房间——也许是一个 apodyterium 或更衣室——其庞大的遗迹为皮拉内西的许多版画提供了主题。这是对他的《罗马风景》第二卷版画的准备研究，这是一项雄心勃勃的事业，艺术家从事了三十多年。相应的印刷品——他对哈德良别墅的最后景色——于 1777 年出版，也就是他去世前一年。皮拉内西对罗马建筑和工程奇迹的持久迷恋体现在他对拱门、砖石和部分保存的浇筑混凝土屋顶的忠实描绘中。某种诗意的、原始浪漫主义的情感减轻了严格的考古观点：杂草丛生、腐烂的废墟是时间流逝和尘世生活的短暂的不可言喻的提醒。
介绍（英）	The Venetian Piranesi was active as a draftsman, designer, architect, archaeologist, and theorist, but it is as a printmaker that he achieved his most enduring fame. His technically brilliant and exceedingly influential etchings reflect his antiquarian interests and offered audiences across Europe a rich visual record, at once archaeological and poetic, of the glories of ancient Rome. This drawing represents an octagonal chamber—perhaps an apodyterium, or changing room—in the bath complex at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, the sprawling remains of which provided subject matter for a number of Piranesi's prints. It is a preparatory study for an etching in the second volume of his Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome), an ambitious undertaking in which the artist was engaged for more than thirty years. The corresponding print—his final view of Hadrian's Villa—was published in 1777, one year before his death. Piranesi's enduring fascination with the marvels of Roman architecture and engineering is manifest in his faithful depiction of its arches, masonry, and partially preserved poured concrete roof. A certain poetic, proto-Romantic sensibility mitigates the strictly archaeologizing view: the overgrown, decaying ruins are an ineffable reminder of the passage of time and the transience of earthly life.