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Design for an Altar Mensa by Italian Giovanni Battista Piranesi — VisualArtsDB

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Design for an Altar Mensa

Design for an Altar Mensa

Design for an Altar Mensa

Italian Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1760

Medium: Pen and dark brown ink; graphite on off white laid paper
Genre: Architecture
Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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