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Plan and elevation of the Pons Fabricius (also known as the Quattro Capi Bridge), Rome, from the series 'Le Antichità Romane'
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Plan and elevation of the Pons Fabricius (also known as the Quattro Capi Bridge), Rome, from the series 'Le Antichità Romane'

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1756

Medium

Etching

Tags

BridgesArchitecture

Dimensions

Sheet: 20 1/2 x 28 11/16 in. (52 x 72.8 cm) Plate: 15 9/16 x 23 5/8 in. (39.6 x 60 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011

Classification

Prints|Ornament & Architecture

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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