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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)

ca. 1767
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42.2 × 60.3 cm (16.6 × 23.7 in)

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