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View of the Flavian Amphitheater, called the Colosseum, from "Vedute di Roma" (Roman Views), part II
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View of the Flavian Amphitheater, called the Colosseum, from "Vedute di Roma" (Roman Views), part II

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

ca. 1750–78

Medium

Etching; second state of four (Hind)

Dimensions

Sheet: 20 1/16 x 28 15/16 in. (51 x 73.5 cm) Plate: 17 5/16 x 27 9/16 in. (44 x 70 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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