Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Coliseum

1757–61

Dating

Date range

Made in

Italy

Held at

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

17 3/8 x 27 1/2 in. (44.13 x 69.85 cm) (plate) 21 x 28 15/16 in. (53.34 x 73.5 cm) (sheet)

Collection no.

P.472

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

Public Domain Mark 1.0License details

Giovanni Battista Piranesi. The Coliseum. Giovanni Battista Piranesi; Minneapolis Institute of Art; The William M. Ladd Collection Gift of Herschel V. Jones, 1916; P.472. Public Domain Mark 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.