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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1765

This is a drawing of an elaborate architectural structure featuring grand arches, columns, and detailed stonework. The design includes large arches, columns, circular medallions, arched windows, and a colonnade… · description from the collection

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Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi ¹
Date: 1765 ¹
Medium: pen and brown ink, heightened with reed pen and brown ink, some brown wash (laid on eighteenth-century card) ¹
Original: 7,690 × 5,724 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

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