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Interior of St. Peter’s, with the Illumination of the Cross of St. Peter
1787
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 76.52 × 51.12 cm (30 1/8 × 20 1/8 in.) sheet: 89.22 × 63.5 cm (35 1/8 × 25 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2016.113.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Francesco Piranesi. Interior of St. Peter’s, with the Illumination of the Cross of St. Peter. Francesco Piranesi; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francesco_Piranesi,_Interior_of_St._Peter%E2%80%99s,_with_the_Illumination_of_the_Cross_of_St._Peter,_1787,_NGA_207789.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Interior of St. Peter’s, with the Illumination of the Cross of St. Peter — Francesco Piranesi. 1787.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 76.52 × 51.12 cm (30 1/8 × 20 1/8 in.) sheet: 89.22 × 63.5 cm (35 1/8 × 25 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2016.113.1. Purchased as the gift of National Gallery of Art staff in honor of Andrew Robison.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.