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Michiel van Overbeek

The Pyramid of Cestius, Rome

c. 1650–80
Pen and brown ink with red chalk on brown prepared paper

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

The Pyramid of Cestius was constructed in Rome as a tomb in 12 BC during a fad for Egyptian things just a few years after Rome had conquered Cleopatra’s Egypt (30 BC).

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