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A marble altar to Apollo. Etching by G.B. Piranesi
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A marble altar to Apollo. Etching by G.B. Piranesi
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A marble altar to Apollo. Etching by G.B. Piranesi. Elevation and plan of the altar. The signs of the zodiac are shown in relief around the outside of the bowl. According to Piranesi, the altar came from Cicero's villa in Tusculum, near Rome, and was in Piranesi's own collection

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Keywords: Giovanni Battista Piranesi; Peter Christian Kopp; Marcus Tullius. Cicero
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