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Interior wall of the funerary room by Giovanni Battista Piranesi — VisualArtsDB

Interior wall of the funerary room

Interior wall of the funerary room

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Medium: Etching
Dimensions: plate: 56.2 x 39.5 cm (22 1/8 x 15 9/16 in.)
Genre: Print
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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View of the Flavian Amphitheater, called the Colosseum, from Views of Rome

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Large porphyry sarcophagus from the mausoleum of Saint Helena

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Rear view of the remains of the pronaos of the Temple of Neptune, drawn in the two preceding plates, from Different views of Paestum

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