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Veduta degli avanzi del Castro Pretorio nella Villa Adriana a Tivoli (View of the Remains of the Praetorian Fort [the Poecile], Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching · 1770
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Forum Romanum, or Campo Vaccino, from the capitol, with the Arch of Septimus Severus in the foreground left, Temple of Vespian right, and the Colosseum in the distance (Veduta di Campo Vaccino), from "Vedute di Roma"
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching · 1770
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Capitol and the steps of S. Maria in Aracoeli (Veduta del Romano Camipidoglio con scalinata che va alla chiesa d'Araceli)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
etching · 1770
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Forum Romanum, or Campo Vaccino, from the Capitol, with the Arch of Septimius in the foreground left, Temple of Vespian right, and the Colosseum in the distance (Veduta di Campo Vaccino)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching · 1770
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

View of the Temple of Hercules at Cori, ten miles distant from Velletri, from Views of Rome
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper · 1769
Art Institute of Chicago

View of the Small Waterfall and Rapids, Tivoli, from Views of Rome
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper · 1769
Art Institute of Chicago

View of the Villa of His Eminence Cardinal Alessandro Albani, outside Porta Salaria, from Views of Rome
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching on ivory laid paper · 1769
Art Institute of Chicago
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Chimneypiece in the Egyptian style: Giant figures supporting the lintel, flanked by chairs, from "Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini..." (Diverse Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces...)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching · 1769
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Chimneypiece in the Egyptian style: Mummy superimposed on a large caryatid above the lintel (Ch. à l'égyptiennne surmontée d'une grande cariatide contre laquelle s'applique une momie), from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi...(Different Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces and all other parts of houses)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching · 1769
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi desunte dall'architettura Egizia, Etrusca, e Greca con un Ragionamento Apologetico in defesa dell'Architettura Egizia, e Toscana, opera del Cavaliere Giambattista Piranesi Architetto (Diverse Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces and all other parts of houses taken from Egyptian, Etruscan, and Grecian architecture with an Apologia in defense of the Egyptian and Tuscan architecture, the work of Cavaliere Giambattista Piranesi)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching · 1769
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Egyptian decoration of the Caffè degli Inglesi: Animals on the cornice, including a bull at the center, from "Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini..." (Diverse Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces...)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching · 1769
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Bird in shell at the center of the lintel, with a frieze of trophies, surmounted by an overmantel with candelabra and flanked by chairs. (Ch. décorée d'une frise de casques et d'armures . . .)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching · 1769
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Interior view of the Pantheon, from Views of Rome
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper · 1768
Art Institute of Chicago

Interior view of the Basilica of S. Maria Maggiore, from Views of Rome
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching on ivory laid paper · 1768
Art Institute of Chicago

Interior view of the Basilica of St. John Lateran, from Views of Rome
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching on ivory laid paper · 1768
Art Institute of Chicago

Remains of the so-called Temple of Apollo at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, from Views of Rome
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper · 1768
Art Institute of Chicago

Remains of the so-called Temple of Apollo at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, from Views of Rome
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper · 1768
Art Institute of Chicago

Remains of the temple of the god Canopus at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, from Views of Rome
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper · 1768
Art Institute of Chicago

Interior view of the Basilica of S. Maria Maggiore, from Views of Rome
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper · 1768
Art Institute of Chicago

Interior view of the Pantheon, from Views of Rome
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper · 1768
Art Institute of Chicago

Interior view of the Basilica of St. John Lateran, from Views of Rome
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper · 1768
Art Institute of Chicago
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View of the Piazza di monte Cavallo, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching; first state of four (Hind) · 1768
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Another interior view of the Villa of Maecenas, Tivoli, from Views of Rome
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper · 1767
Art Institute of Chicago

Interior view of the ancient Temple of Bacchus, now the church of S. Urbano, two miles from Rome, from Views of Rome
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper · 1767
Art Institute of Chicago