# Nuova pianta di Roma data in luce da Giambattista Nolli l’anno MDCCXLVII, known as La Pianta Grande di Roma, in Baroque and Rococo

Giovanni Battista Nolli made this in 1748, aged 47. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> The monumental Pianta Grande di Roma, or Large Plan of Rome, which measures about 5 x 7 feet when its twelve plates are assembled, is a landmark in both cartography and printmaking.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1748
- Medium: etching and engraving
- Dimensions: Sheet: 43.8 x 68.7 cm (17 1/4 x 27 1/16 in.)
- Type: Print
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2020.276.4
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Giovanni Battista Nolli](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/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.

3 works in the collection.

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