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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Pyramid of Caius Cestius

1739-1777

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The Pyramid of Caius Cestius

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Pyramid of Caius Cestius

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Pyramid of Caius Cestius

1739-1777

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 415 x 588 mm. (16 5/16 x 23 1/8 in.) Plate: 390 x 535 mm. (15 3/8 x 21 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.15827
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1946; Garrett Collection; T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore

Inscribed: lower right: "Piranesi F"

Artist

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1719–1777

Italian, 1720-1778
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THE ELKHORN PYRAMID ON THE UPPER MISSOURI
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The Elkhorn Pyramid on the Upper Missouri
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
View of the So-Called Temple of Concord
1773
WHEN THE PYRAMID AWAKENS
Agnes Denes, Sylvan Cole, and others
When the Pyramid Awakens
1993
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
View of the Remains of the Dining Room of the Golden House of Nero, Commonly Called the Temple of Peace (Actually the Basilica of Maxentius)
1759–1768
EXTENSION OF THE RUE DES PYRAMIDES
Jean Alfred Taïée
Prolongement de la rue des Pyramides
1839–1879
THE GIANT WHEEL
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Giant Wheel
1748
EXTENSION OF THE RUE DES PYRAMIDES
Jean Alfred Taïée
Prolongement de la Rue des Pyramides
1839–1879
THE BATHS OF CARACALLA
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
From the series "Vedute di Roma"
1764
THE ELKHORN PYRAMID ON THE UPPER MISSOURI
Amable-Nicolas Fournier, Karl Bodmer, and others
The Elkhorn Pyramid on the Upper Missouri
1835–1842
CHIMNEYPIECE (FIREPLACE SURMOUNTED BY AN OVAL MIRROR AND ARABESQUES)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Chimneypiece (Fireplace surmounted by an oval mirror and arabesques)
1768
THE ELKHORN PYRAMID ON THE UPPER MISSOURI
Amable-Nicolas Fournier, Karl Bodmer, and others
The Elkhorn Pyramid on the Upper Missouri
1835–1842