Album 1
arrow left swipe to the left Visible reflectance photograph Verso of the thirty-first sheet, Album 1 activate zoom zoom tool
Leaf 31 verso activate zoom zoom tool
Visible reflectance photograph Ship prows, figure studies, capitals, urns, study of an ornamentation activate zoom zoom tool arrow right swipe to the right
activate zoom zoom tool Leaf 32

Works on this double page

  • Visible reflectance photograph Pen and chalk drawings of five figurative ship prows
  • Visible reflectance photograph Red chalk drawn Palmette and acanthus ornaments from the baptistery of San Giovanni in Laterano and densely set pen testing marks
  • Auflichtaufnahme Studien der Meta Albani, des Hekataion und eines Satyrs der ehemaligen Brunnenanlage aus der Villa Albani in Rötel und schwarzer Kreide
  • Visible reflectance photograph Chalk drawing of a column base with leaf frieze
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Album 1, Leaf 32

The most striking sheet on this leaf is the one containing images of elaborately decorated ship’s rams. Such devices were used to ram enemy ships and were displayed as war trophies after victory. They are a recurring and prominent motif in Piranesi’s ornament vocabulary.

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