{"id":16130,"date":"2016-09-09T22:08:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T21:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=16130"},"modified":"2016-09-09T22:08:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T21:08:22","slug":"an-18th-century-image-of-the-meta-sudans-in-a-prospect-of-the-colosseum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2016\/09\/09\/an-18th-century-image-of-the-meta-sudans-in-a-prospect-of-the-colosseum\/","title":{"rendered":"An 18th century image of the Meta Sudans in a prospect of the Colosseum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I came across an image on Twitter which shows the Colosseum, but also the ruined fountain that used to stand next to it, the Meta Sudans.\u00a0 Here it is (click to enlarge):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/prospetto_dellanfiteatro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16131\" src=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/prospetto_dellanfiteatro-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"prospetto_dellanfiteatro\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tweeter had found it online &#8220;somewhere&#8221;.\u00a0 Fortunately it is not too hard to locate: this is <em><i class=\"title style16Italic222\">Prospetto dell&#8217;anfiteatro Flavio &#8230;\u00a0detto volgarmente il Colosseo<\/i><\/em>, 1703, by Alessandro Specchi (1668-1729).[ref]So this <a href=\"http:\/\/artsalesindex.artinfo.com\/auctions\/Alessandro-Specchi-5510747\/Prospetto-dell'anfiteatro-Flavio,-detto-volgarmente-il-Colosseo-1703\">art site<\/a>.\u00a0 This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-saleroom.com\/en-gb\/auction-catalogues\/lawrences-auctioneers-of-crewkerne\/catalogue-id-srlawre10004\/lot-cd8a4a3d-0307-4f9c-8608-a3f8012f187c\">other site<\/a> adds that is is an engraving, published by Domenico de Rossi, 1703. 48 x 67.5cm.[\/ref]\u00a0 There is even a page about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kunstgeschichte.uni-muenchen.de\/ifk\/graph_sammlung\/linienspiele\/format\/specchi.html\">here<\/a> at the University of Munich, complete with\u00a0an image, although, infuriatingly, a low-quality one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was unable to locate online any quality image, so this is about as good as it gets for the Meta Sudans (obtained by zooming my browser at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.racollection.org.uk\/ixbin\/indexplus?_IXSESSION_=UjCIAKs2iGX&amp;_IXSR_=&amp;_IXACTION_=display&amp;_MREF_=53095&amp;_IXSP_=1&amp;_IXFPFX_=templates\/full\/&amp;_IXSPFX_=templates\/full\/\">this site<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/meta_sudans_specchi.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16132\" src=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/meta_sudans_specchi.png\" alt=\"meta_sudans_specchi\" width=\"640\" height=\"476\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It clearly shows the Meta Sudans at twice the height that we see in photographs from the 19th century.\u00a0 The upper section must have become very ruinous, and been demolished.\u00a0 No doubt some Italian source could tell us when and why this happened; but such knowledge has not reached me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Delightful to see another picture of this vanished monument, all the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an image on Twitter which shows the Colosseum, but also the ruined fountain that used to stand next to it, the Meta Sudans.\u00a0 Here it is (click to enlarge): The tweeter had found it online &#8220;somewhere&#8221;.\u00a0 Fortunately it is not too hard to locate: this is Prospetto dell&#8217;anfiteatro Flavio &#8230;\u00a0detto volgarmente il [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[453,1122],"class_list":["post-16130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-colosseum","tag-meta-sudans"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}