# View of the Piazza del Popolo, Rome [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [WITTEL, Caspar Andriaans van]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Etching, 216 x 422 mm ## Commentary View of the Piazza del Popolo, Rome c. 1678 Etching, 216 x 422 mm British Museum, London Van Wittel starts in Italy by following the tradition established in the sixteenth century of depicting the sights of the city in prints which culminates in the following century in Piranesi's peerless etchings of Rome. One of van Wittel's etchings is a panoramic view of Piazza del Popolo, made from the top of Porta del Popolo, the main entrance to the city for travellers arriving from the north. It was based on a drawing by Cornelis Meijer \(1629-1701\), an illustration to Meijer's "L'arte di restituire a Roma" \(published in Rome, 1683\). The etching was retouched in pen and ink. ## Related artworks - [A View of Tivoli]() - [Bacino di San Marco \(detail\)]() - [Bacino di San Marco]() - [Castel Sant'Angelo from the South]() - [Landscape with the Villa Aldobrandini at Frascati]() - [Landscape with the Villa Farnese at Caprarola]() - [Piazza San Marco: Looking South]() - [Rome: A View of The Colosseum]() - [Rome: A View of the Ponte Salario]() - [Rome: A View of the Port of Ripa Grande \(detail\)]() - [Rome: A View of the Port of Ripa Grande]() - [Rome: The Ponte Sisto]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()