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accession number:	2020.276.16
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.276.16
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Nuova pianta di Roma data in luce da Giambattista Nolli l’anno MDCCXLVII, known as La Pianta Grande di Roma, 1748. Giovanni Battista Nolli (Italian, 1701–1756), engraved by Carlo Nolli (Italian, 1690–1790), engraved by Rocco Pozzi (Italian, 1701–1774), engraved by Pietro Campana de Soriano (Italian, 1725–c. 1779), designed by Stefano Pozzi (Italian, 1699–1768). Etching and engraving; sheet: 42.1 x 67.8 cm (16 9/16 x 26 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 2020.276.16

title:				Nuova pianta di Roma data in luce da Giambattista Nolli l’anno MDCCXLVII, known as La Pianta Grande di Roma
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creation date:			1748
creation date earliest:		1748
creation date latest:		1748
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creditline:			Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
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culture:	Italy, 18th century
technique:	etching and engraving
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Giovanni Battista Nolli (Italian, 1701–1756)  - artist
Italian engraver and architect, 1701-1756
* Carlo Nolli (Italian, 1690–1790)  - artist
Italian painter and engraver, died after 1770
* Rocco Pozzi (Italian, 1701–1774)  - artist
Italian engraver, 1701-1774
* Pietro Campana de Soriano (Italian, 1725–c. 1779)  - artist

* Stefano Pozzi (Italian, 1699–1768)  - designer
Italian painter and draftsman, 1699-1768
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measurements: Sheet: 42.1 x 67.8 cm (16 9/16 x 26 11/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Private Collection, Italy
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	In trade, Rome, Italy
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	(Piraneseum, Oakland, CA)
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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fun fact:
To make this map, Pope Clement XII granted the mapmaker permission to measure courtyards and other interior, inaccessible spaces in monastic communities, even those in nuns’ convents, which was controversial at the time.

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The monumental <em>Pianta Grande di Roma, </em>or Large Plan of Rome, which measures about 5 x 7 feet when its twelve plates are assembled, is a landmark in both cartography and printmaking. The map is considered the first scientific rendering of Rome, establishing new standards of accuracy and thoroughness when it was published in 1748. Devised by the Lombard architect and surveyor Giovanni Battista Nolli (Italian, 1701-56), the creation of the map required over ten years of surveying the city carried out by Nolli and a team of assistants with the help of new measuring devices. In Nolli’s “ichnographic” (also called “ground”) plan, architectural features and the urban infrastructure are reduced to a single horizontal slice, a minutely detailed footprint that conveys dimensions, proportions, and orientations to scale with the utmost clarity.

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Ehrle, Francesco. <em>Roma al tempo di Benedetto XIV: la pianta di Roma di Giambattista Nolli del 1748, riprodotta da una copia vaticana</em>. Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1932.
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	Borsi, Stefano. Roma di Benedetto XIV: la pianta di Giovan Battista Nolli, 1748. Roma: Officina, 1993.
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	Bevilacqua, Mario. <em>Roma nel secolo dei lumi: Architettura erudizione scienza nella </em>Pianta<em> di G.B. Nolli “celebre geometra.” </em>Naples: Mondadori Electa, 1997.
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	Nolli, Giambattista, Giuseppe Vasi, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and Mario Bevilacqua. Nolli, Vasi, Piranesi: immagine di Roma antica e moderna : rappresentare e conoscere la metropoli dei lumi. Roma: Artemide, 2004.
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	Giambattista Nolli, Imago Urbis and Rome, Ian Verstegen, and Allan Ceen. Giambattista Nolli and Rome: mapping the city before and after the Pianta grande. 2013.
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IMAGES

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