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Hadrian's Villa near Tivoli, "Le Vedute di Roma" (1748-1778)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi1748–78

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Ruins of a Classical building with an apse. Interior of praetorian castle, with scattered small-scale figures. At left, is a section of a high wall with two arched doorways. At right, a curved wall with seven niches surmounted by a half-dome (the apse). Etched in the cartouche: Avanzi di una Sala appar / tenente al Casto Pretorio nel / la Villa Adriana in Tivoli / A. Tribunale ornato di nicchie, and signed on the plate at lower left: Cvalier Piranesi F.

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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