The so-called Temple of Bacchus, now the Church of S. Urban, interior (Veduta interna dell antico Tempio di Bacco, or. di S. Urbano)

ca. 1767

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: sheet: 16 5/8 x 23 3/4 in. (42.2 x 60.3 cm)
Collection no.: 60.536.3
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giovanni Battista Piranesi. The so-called Temple of Bacchus, now the Church of S. Urban, interior (Veduta interna dell antico Tempio di Bacco, or. di S. Urbano). Giovanni Battista Piranesi; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1960. 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 Bacchus, now the Church of S. Urban, interior (Veduta interna dell antico Tempio di Bacco, or. di S. Urbano) — Giovanni Battista Piranesi. ca. 1767.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: sheet: 16 5/8 x 23 3/4 in. (42.2 x 60.3 cm).

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

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1960.

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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