The Palazzo Barberini
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1750–1759
$235
Print check at 24 x 16 in: 158 dpi, good. Trimmed 0.1% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Etched between about 1750 and 1759, this view depicts the Palazzo Barberini on the Quirinal Hill, the family seat Gian Lorenzo Bernini helped design for one of 17th-century Rome's most powerful papal dynasties — Piranesi's caption credits Bernini by name, a rare instance of him crediting a specific architect within the Vedute series. Unlike the ancient ruins that dominate most of his views, the Barberini palace was still a functioning aristocratic residence in Piranesi's own century, giving this plate a different register: less elegy, more portrait of power. What to notice: Piranesi frames the palace across an open piazza, using the same dramatic scale tricks he applied to ancient Rome — tiny carriages and figures making the Baroque façade read as monumental as anything the Caesars built. Rome's ancient and Baroque grandeur, in his hands, were really the same subject.
- Maker
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi
- Date
- ca. 1750–1759
- Medium of the original
- Plate
- Original held by
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Credit
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00295
| Picture | 24 x 16 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 25.6 x 17.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 x 8 in | 317 | Excellent | Trimmed 0.1% |
| 18 x 12 in | 211 | Excellent | Trimmed 0.1% |
| 24 x 16 in | 158 | Good | Trimmed 0.1% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | 126 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | 105 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | 63 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 3,812 x 2,539 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 74, lights 235 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 199.54
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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