Giovanni Battista Nolli
Italian, 1701–1756
Nolli was an architect and surveyor from the region around Como who worked in Rome. He spent more than a decade surveying the city for the great map published in 1748, the Pianta Grande di Roma, engraved on twelve plates. Its innovation was to show buildings in ground plan, with church interiors, courtyards and other public spaces left open, so that streets, piazzas and accessible interiors read as one continuous public realm. Urban designers still use the method.
Written by Ochre Editions.
- In the collection
- 3 worksDated 1748
- Mostly
- Movement
- RococoLight, playful and pastel: the decorative art of eighteenth-century Europe.
- Courtesy of
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
