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Wall with buttresses by Giovanni Battista Piranesi — VisualArtsDB

Wall with buttresses

Wall with buttresses

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Medium: Etching
Dimensions: plate: 14 x 27 cm (5 1/2 x 10 5/8 in.)
Genre: Print
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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Italian

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View of the Basilica of San Sebastiano fuori delle mura [St. Sebastian outside the Walls] on the Appian Way, from Views of Rome

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