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Pyramid of Cestius by Giovanni Battista Piranesi — VisualArtsDB

Pyramid of Cestius

Pyramid of Cestius

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1756

Medium: Etching
Genre: Print
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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Italian

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