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Plan of a tomb on the Appian Way in Vigna Buonamici (Pianta di un sepolcro sull'antica Via Appia nella Vigna Buonamici), from the series 'Le Antichità Romane'
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Plan of a tomb on the Appian Way in Vigna Buonamici (Pianta di un sepolcro sull'antica Via Appia nella Vigna Buonamici), from the series 'Le Antichità Romane'

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Sheet: 20 1/2 x 14 3/4 in. (52 x 37.5 cm) Plate: 13 3/4 x 9 1/8 in. (34.9 x 23.2 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

1720–1778Republic 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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