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Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Pyramid of Caius Cestius   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi  (1720–1778)  wikidata:Q316307 s:it:Autore:Giovanni Battista Piranesi q:it:Giovanni Battista Piranesi
 
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Description Italian printmaker, architect and engraver
Date of birth/death 4 October 1720 Edit this at Wikidata 9 November 1778 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Mogliano Veneto, Republic of Venice Rome, Papal States
Work period 1740 Edit this at Wikidata–1778 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q316307
Title
Pyramid of Caius Cestius
Date 1756
date QS:P571,+1756-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium etching print
Notes
Italiano: VEDUTA della Piramide di Cajo Cestio, situata sopra l'antica Via Ostiense, oggi detta di S. Paolo. Il Lato, che guarda sopra la strada verso Levante è la Facciata principale.
  1. Mura di Roma, le quali sono congiunte ai lati della Piramide. Furono esse dilatate sino a questo Sepolcro dall'Imperatore Aureliano; e poscia quivi ristabilite ne' tempi posteriori.
  2. Porta Ostiense detta oggi di S. Paolo.
Русский: Вид Пирамиды Цестия, стоящей на древней Остийской дороге, ныне называемой улицей св. Павла. Сторона, обращенная на дорогу к востоку, - главный фасад.
  1. Стены Рима, которые соединены с гранями Пирамиды. Они были расширены до этой гробницы при имп. Аврелиане и затем не раз восстанавливались.
  2. Остийские ворота, ныне – Porta San Paolo.
Source/Photographer
Le antichità Romane. Tomo III, tav. XL. // Opere di Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Francesco Piranesi e d'altri. Firmin Didot Freres, Paris, 1835-1839. Tomo 3.
Scans from www.coe.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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