Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Date: 1777
Size: 77 x 51 cm
Museum: National Gallery of Denmark (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Technique: Drawing
During the 1770s Piranesi visited Pompeii on several occasions. Perhaps he intended to publish a large-scale illustrated volume about this ancient city, buried under four or five metres of ashes since Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD and until excavations began in 1748.12 drawings from PompeiiA total of twelve Piranesi drawings showing various locations in Pompeii survive today. All of them are executed in the same manner. First, the scene was lightly traced by hand in pencil, then the main lines of the perspective structure were touched up using a pencil and ruler, and then everything - houses, sculptures, broken columns, inquisitive archaeologists and curious tourists - was given shape and mass by means of a reed pen and brownishblack ink.The drawing
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