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Another view of the remains of the Pronaos of the Temple of Concord (The Temple of Saturn with Arch of Septimius Severus in left background), from "Vedute di Roma" (Views of Rome), part I
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Another view of the remains of the Pronaos of the Temple of Concord (The Temple of Saturn with Arch of Septimius Severus in left background), from "Vedute di Roma" (Views of Rome), part I

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

ca. 1750–78

Medium

Etching; first state of three (Hind)

Tags

RomeHuman FiguresTemplesRuins

Dimensions

Sheet: 20 1/2 x 29 5/16 in. (52 x 74.5 cm) Plate: 18 5/16 x 27 15/16 in. (46.5 x 71 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1720–1778 • Republic of Venice

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) was an Italian printmaker, architect, and antiquarian whose visionary etchings of Rome and imaginary prisons revolutionized architectural representation and profoundly influenced both Neoclassicism and Romanticism.

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