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Cut-away view of the interior of the Basilica of S. Paolo fuori delle Mura [St. Paul outside the Walls], from Views of Rome, 1749. Etching on heavy ivory laid paper.
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper · Image: 39.2 × 60.9 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Cut-away view of the interior of the Basilica of S. Paolo fuori delle Mura [St. Paul outside the Walls], from Views of Rome
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi Italian, 1720-1778
- Date
- 1749
- Medium
- Etching on heavy ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 39.2 × 60.9 cm (15 7/16 × 24 in.); Plate: 41.5 × 61.3 cm (16 3/8 × 24 3/16 in.); Sheet: 47 × 66.2 cm (18 9/16 × 26 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- The Charles Deering Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1720–1778
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.