Canopus: Villa Hadriana Tivoli
14.5 x 19.5 inches (mounted) 2006 Medium: Digital photograph inkjet printed on Innova paper Boxed set of five images with title page and colophon Edition: 5
The five images were taken in November 2006 by Rutherford Witthus in the area of Hadrian’s Villa known as The Canopus. The Canopus refers to an artificial canal that connected the Egyptian city of Canopus in the Nile delta with Alexandria. The city Canopus was famous for its Temple of Serapis, which in Hadrian's Villa is identified with the structure at the end of the narrow lake. The Canopus was built before Hadrian's first journey to Egypt, so it cannot be said to be a reconstruction of something he had seen on his travels. This area may have been used as a summer banqueting hall with guests arranged along the sides of the narrow lake. A number of statues, mostly copies of Greek works (now copies in cement), decorate the perimeter. The originals reside in the Vatican and in London, Dresden, and Munich. The images were printed on Innova soft-textured art paper with an Epson Stylus Pro 4000 printer and mounted on black Strathmore museum board. The title font is Trajan; the colophon is Sabon Roman. |
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