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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Plate 9: Arch of Constantine in Rome (Arco di Costantino in Roma), from "Antichità Romane de' Tempi della Repubblica, e de' primi Imperatori"

ca. 1748
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13.9 × 26.5 cm (5.5 × 10.4 in)

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