Veduta dell’ Anfiteatro Flavio, detto il Colosseo (Flavian Amphitheater Called the Colosseum)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

About 1757

  • Titles Veduta dell' Anfiteatro Flavio, detto il Colosseo (Flavian Amphitheater Called the Colosseum) (Proper)@Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome) (Portfolio)
  • Artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italy, 1720 - 1778
  • Medium engraving
  • Dimensions frame: 26 × 36 in. (66 × 91.4 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Henry Upson Sims, 1966.81
  • Work Type print
  • Classification Prints

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