Plate 12: Flavian Amphitheater, called the Colosseum. 1. Arch of Constantine. 2. Palatine Hill. (Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo in Roma. 1. Arco di Costantino. 2. Monte Palatino.), from "Antichità Romane de' Tempi della Repubblica, e de' primi Imperatori"

ca. 1748

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Plate: 5 1/4 × 10 13/16 in. (13.4 × 27.4 cm) Sheet: 13 1/8 × 18 7/8 in. (33.3 × 48 cm)
Collection no.: 37.45.3(79)
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Plate 12: Flavian Amphitheater, called the Colosseum. 1. Arch of Constantine. 2. Palatine Hill. (Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo in Roma. 1. Arco di Costantino. 2. Monte Palatino.), from "Antichità Romane de' Tempi della Repubblica, e de' primi Imperatori". Giovanni Battista Piranesi; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Plate 12: Flavian Amphitheater, called the Colosseum. 1. Arch of Constantine. 2. Palatine Hill. (Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo in Roma. 1. Arco di Costantino. 2. Monte Palatino.), from "Antichità Romane de' Tempi della Repubblica, e de' primi Imperatori" — Giovanni Battista Piranesi. ca. 1748.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Plate: 5 1/4 × 10 13/16 in. (13.4 × 27.4 cm) Sheet: 13 1/8 × 18 7/8 in. (33.3 × 48 cm).

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

Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937.

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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