click to zoomThe Metropolitan Museum of Art
Plate 7: Ancient altar on which sacrifices were performed in antiquity, surrounded by other ruins (Ara antica sopra la quale si facevano anticamente i sagrifizi, con altre ruine all' intorno), from "Part one of architecture and perspectives: drawn and etched by Gio. Batt'a Piranesi, Venetian Architect: dedicated to Nicola Giobbe" (Prima parte di Architetture, e prospettive inventate, ed incise da Gio. Batt'a Piranesi Architetto Veneziano dedicate al Sig. Nicola Giobbe)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 9 3/4 x 13 13/16 in. (24.7 x 35.1 cm)
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Classification
- Prints
- Dated
- 1743
- Pixels
- 3802 × 2654
- SHA-256
- 9667050a728ed000…
- Record
- View at the source institution ↗
License, verbatimCC0
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Open Access, Creative Commons Zero (CC0). Flagged isPublicDomain=true in the museum's own record.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Plate 7: Ancient altar on which sacrifices were performed in antiquity, surrounded by other ruins (Ara antica sopra la quale si facevano anticamente i sagrifizi, con altre ruine all' intorno), from "Part one of architecture and perspectives: drawn and etched by Gio. Batt'a Piranesi, Venetian Architect: dedicated to Nicola Giobbe" (Prima parte di Architetture, e prospettive inventate, ed incise da Gio. Batt'a Piranesi Architetto Veneziano dedicate al Sig. Nicola Giobbe), 1743. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.