Styles Genres Museums Artists Support

An open visual arts database with 825,000+ artworks, 75,000+ artists, and 750+ styles spanning centuries of human creativity.

Browse

Styles
Genres
Museums
Artists
Favorites

Popular Styles

Impressionism
Romanticism
Surrealism
Pop Art
Cubism
Realism

Museums

Art Institute of Chicago
MoMA
Rijksmuseum
Cleveland Museum of Art
The MET
Louvre

VisualArtsDB is free and open for everyone.

Support the project

© 2026 VisualArtsDB

The Tomb of Caecilia Metella by Giovanni Battista Piranesi — VisualArtsDB

The Tomb of Caecilia Metella

The Tomb of Caecilia Metella

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Medium: Etching
Dimensions: image: 44.7 × 63.1 cm (17 5/8 × 24 13/16 in.) plate: 45.6 × 63.7 cm (17 15/16 × 25 1/16 in.) sheet: 53.8 × 78.3 cm (21 3/16 × 30 13/16 in.)
Genre: Print
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

Tags

Italian

More by Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Arco di Settimio Severo

Arco di Settimio Severo

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Interior view of the Pantheon, from Views of Rome

Interior view of the Pantheon, from Views of Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1768

View of the exterior of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, from Views of Rome

View of the exterior of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, from Views of Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1750

The lifting instruments called the Ulivella

The lifting instruments called the Ulivella

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Tomb, called La Conocchia

The Tomb, called La Conocchia

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1776

Foro di Augusto

Foro di Augusto

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1743

Trajan's Column

Trajan's Column

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Prisons: A Wide Hall with Lanterns

The Prisons: A Wide Hall with Lanterns

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1745

The Porta Maggiore, Originally an Archway of the Aqua Claudia and the Anio Novus

The Porta Maggiore, Originally an Archway of the Aqua Claudia and the Anio Novus

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1775

View of a tomb on the ancient Via Cassia

View of a tomb on the ancient Via Cassia

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Hadrianeum (once used as a custom house) in the Piazza di Pietra

The Hadrianeum (once used as a custom house) in the Piazza di Pietra

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Frontispiece: Ancient Circus of Mars with neighboring monuments viewed from the Via Appia

Frontispiece: Ancient Circus of Mars with neighboring monuments viewed from the Via Appia

Giovanni Battista Piranesi