Baths of Diocletian with Santa Maria degli Angeli, Rome
Architect/Designer | Michelangelo (1475-1564) |
| Vanvitelli, Luigi (1700-1773) |
Artist/Photographer | Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (1720-1778) |
Country | Italy |
City | Rome |
Subject Date | 1774 |
Image Date | 1774 |
View | Topographical |
Medium | Print |
Library Reference | SB101/1(116) |
Orientation | Landscape |
Colour Info | Black and white |
Credit | RIBA Collections |
Subject | Churches ; Pools, Baths and Lidos: Baths and Bath Houses ; Baths |
SOURCE: Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Vedute di Roma (Rome, [1747?-1788]), pl. 116 NOTES: The Baths of Diocletian were built in 298-306; the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli occupies the central hall of those Baths. Michelangelo designed the conversion in 1563-1566 for Pius IV, but Vanvitelli altered the church in 1749.
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