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View through the Herculaneum Gate, Pompeii

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View through the Herculaneum Gate, Pompeii

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1778

Medium

Pen and brown ink over black chalk

Tags

Buildings Architecture

Dimensions

11 x 16 3/4 in. (28 x 42.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

Classification

Drawings

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

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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