The Colosseum or Flavian Amphitheatre, is probably Rome’s best known
structure.This print has been hand-tinted with watercolour.
Reproduction from an etching drawn “from nature”
& incised on a copperplate by Luigi
Rossini (1790-1857). Rossini was born in Ravenna, studied art in Bologna with
Antonio Giuseppi Basoli (1744-1843),
&
attended lectures in architecture (which improved his skill as an artist). At
23, he was awarded a prize to study in Rome, where he worked with one of the
finest sculptors, Venetian, Antonio Canova (1757-1822). Rossini was greatly
influenced by his surroundings in Rome, and the etchings of Roman
archaeological antiquities circa 1756 by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)
for Piranesi’s grand
Le Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome) published circa
1748-78. This work by Rossini was published between 1819 and 1823 for his own
very fine views of Roman antiquities
Le Antichita Romane. 
