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View of the Colosseum, interior. Bird's-eye View. by Giovanni Battista Piranesi — VisualArtsDB

View of the Colosseum, interior. Bird's-eye View.

View of the Colosseum, interior. Bird's-eye View.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1776

Medium: Etching
Dimensions: image: 49.2 x 71 cm (19 3/8 x 27 15/16 in.)
Genre: Print
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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Italian

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