Triumphal arches

NOTES: This drawing is numbered XII/14 in the Burlington-Devonshire Collection. This first century AD arch was built at the intersection of the Corso Borsari and the Via Quattro Spade but has now been demolished.

NOTES: This drawing is numbered XII/22 recto in the Burlington-Devonshire Collection. This first century arch was built at the intersection of the Corso Borsari and the Via Quattro Spade but has now been demolished.

NOTES: This drawing is numbered XII/23 in the Burlington-Devonshire Collection. The arch was built on the former via Agrippa to honour the veterans of the Gallic Wars and Legio II Augusta. It was later reconstructed by Emperor Tiberius to celebrate the victories of Germanicus over the German tribes in Rhineland.

NOTES: Replacing the medieval gateway of an arch with four fortified towers, this one was said to have been erected to celebrate Henri III's accession to the throne (1574) or his marriage to Louise de Lorraine (1575). Located by the side of the Bastille it was demolished in1778.

SOURCE: Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Vedute di Roma (Rome, [1747?-1788]), pl. 96 NOTES: The Arch of the Moneychangers (Arcus Argentariorum), at left, was partly incorporated into the western wall of the nearby church of San Giorgio al Velabro.

SOURCE: Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Le Antichita Romane (Rome, 1756), vol. I, pl. XII, fig. II NOTES: The Arch of Claudius was a triumphal arch built as a conversion of one of the arches of the Aqua Virgo aqueduct.