View of the Basilica of San Sebastiano fuori delle mura [St. Sebastian outside the Walls] on the Appian Way, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views)
ca. 1750
![View of the Basilica of San Sebastiano fuori delle mura [St. Sebastian outside the Walls] on the Appian Way, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views) by Giovanni Battista Piranesi](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/dp/thumb/view-of-the-basilica-of-san-sebastiano-fuori-363070.webp)
Medium
Etching; first state of four (Hind)
Dimensions
Sheet: 20 1/2 x 30 1/2 in. (52 x 77.5 cm) Plate: 16 7/16 x 26 in. (41.8 x 66 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. David Keppel, 1960
Accession Number
60.591.5
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About the Artist
Giovanni Battista Piranesi · 1720–1778
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. Piranesi stands as one of the most important printmakers of the eighteenth century, fundamentally shaping European perceptions of ancient Rome an...