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Temple of Venus in Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778after 1759

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Horizontal rectangle. In mid-distance the ruins of the Temple of Venus; the apse at the right; marble pieces in foreground. A group of figures at left. Inscribed, lower right: "G.B. Piranesi Archt. incise"; along lower margin: "Veduta degli avanzi di due Tricliny ... Campo Vaccino"; lower left: "Presso l'autore ... Mezzo"

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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