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View of the Arch of Titus (Vedute di Roma)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artwork Details

View of the Arch of Titus (Vedute di Roma)
1720-1728
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
etching on paper
27 1/8 x 35 3/8 in. (68.9 x 89.85 cm);15 5/8 x 24 ½ in. (39.69 x 62.23 cm)
Gift of Alice Aznavorian Simsar in memory of Rudolph and Mary Arnheim
2020/1.472

Description

Physical Description:

Black and white image of figures, many of them men wearing tricorn hats, in a city around and under a stone arch with friezes on the sides. Other buildings and a street are in the background and two large trees are in the foreground.

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