La Topografia di Roma: Nolli and Piranesi 1748

Title: La Topografia di Roma Author: Giovanni Battista Nolli and Giovanni Battista Piranesi Date: 1748 Medium: Hand-colored copperplate engraving Condition: Very Good - age toning, light foxing and scuffing Inches: 26 3/4 x 18 1/4 [Plate Mark] Centimeters: 67.95 x 46.36 [Plate Mark] Product ID: 1705 Map of Rome; includes numbered legend and decorative views of major monuments and landmarks of the city. This plan of the city of Rome created by Giovanni Battista Nolli (1701-1756) and Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) is a smaller version of Nolli’s masterwork, the Pianta Grande di Roma, which measures nearly six by seven feet. The Pianta Grande, engraved by Nolli in 1748 twelve years after he began its survey, consists of twelve separate copperplate engravings. Though Nolli drew inspiration from Leonardo Bufalini’s 1511 map of Rome, he oriented his map according to magnetic north, not eastward as was conventional at the time. Additionally, rather than follow Bufalini’s ex