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Title page, from "Trofeo o sia Magnifica Colonna Coclide..." (The Trophy or Magnificent Spiral Column)
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Title page, from "Trofeo o sia Magnifica Colonna Coclide..." (The Trophy or Magnificent Spiral Column)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1774–79

Medium

Etching

Tags

EaglesBuildingsMenPortraits

Dimensions

Plate: 17 1/2 x 27 7/16 in. (44.5 x 69.7 cm) Sheet: 21 1/4 x 29 5/16 in. (54 x 74.5 cm) printed horizontally

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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