Giovanni Battista Piranesi

View of Saint Peter's Basilica and Piazza at the Vatican

1772

Dating

Exact year

Made in

Italy

Held at

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

18 1/8 x 27 5/8 in. (46.04 x 70.17 cm) (plate) 21 5/16 x 30 1/4 in. (54.13 x 76.84 cm) (sheet)

Collection no.

P.486

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

Public Domain Mark 1.0License details

Giovanni Battista Piranesi. View of Saint Peter's Basilica and Piazza at the Vatican. Giovanni Battista Piranesi; Minneapolis Institute of Art; The William M. Ladd Collection Gift of Herschel V. Jones, 1916; P.486. Public Domain Mark 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.