The so-called Temple of Fortuna Virilis (now Church of S. Maria Egizziaca) (Veduta del Tempio della Fortuna Virile)

ca. 1758

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: etching
Collection no.: 56.645.2
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giovanni Battista Piranesi. The so-called Temple of Fortuna Virilis (now Church of S. Maria Egizziaca) (Veduta del Tempio della Fortuna Virile). Giovanni Battista Piranesi; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittlelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1956. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

The so-called Temple of Fortuna Virilis (now Church of S. Maria Egizziaca) (Veduta del Tempio della Fortuna Virile) — Giovanni Battista Piranesi. ca. 1758.

Medium: etching. Dimensions: .

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: The Elisha Whittlelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1956.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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