# View of St Peter's Square [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Etching, 467 x 700 mm ## Commentary Piranesi's definition of the peculiar urban image, which brings together the most complete synthesis of the artist's genius as an engraver, has influenced the way in which the urban fabric of Rome has been seen, even in modern times, through a special ability to read and interpret space. For its symbolic worth, which is the latest of his views of St Peter's Square included in the Vedute series, the artist chooses an aerial perspective, with an evocative power that would be inconceivable to our modern-day visual sensitivity. ## Related artworks - [Carceri d'Invenzione]() - [Carceri d'Invenzione]() - [Diverse Maniere d'adornare i Cammini]() - [Exterior view]() - [Frontispiece]() - [Interior view]() - [Palazzo Barberini, Rome]() - [Porto di Ripetta]() - [Prisoners on a Projecting Platform]() - [Round Tower]() - [Ruins of the Antonine Baths]() - [Ruins of the Temple of Minerva]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()