Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Porta Maggiore, Originally an Archway of the Aqua Claudia and the Anio Novus

1775

Dating

Exact year

Made in

Italy

Held at

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

19 1/4 x 27 3/4 in. (48.9 x 70.49 cm) (plate) 19 7/8 x 28 7/16 in. (50.48 x 72.23 cm) (sheet)

Collection no.

P.13, 216

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

Public Domain Mark 1.0License details

Giovanni Battista Piranesi. The Porta Maggiore, Originally an Archway of the Aqua Claudia and the Anio Novus. Giovanni Battista Piranesi; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Gift of Theodore W. Bennett, 1964; P.13, 216. Public Domain Mark 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.