Not currently on view
In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of August 2026
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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Pieter Moninckx — Pyramid of Cestius and the Porta San Paolo
Jan Goeree — View of the Mons Testaceus (above) and the Pyra
Sébastien Bourdon — A Classical Landscape with Buildings by 
Jacob van der Ulft (Dutch, 1627–1689) — View of Ancient Buil
Domenico Campagnola — Imaginary Coastal Landscape with Ruins
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) — Fanciful Landscape (Lan
Jean Baptiste Le Prince (French, 1734–1781) — The Moscow Tav
Giovanni Larciani ("Master of the Kress Landscapes") — Venet
Cornelis Cort — Italian Landscape
Giovanni Battista Pittoni the Elder — View of an Island with
Giovanni Battista Piranesi — The Pyramid of Gaius Cestius, f
Bernardo Bellotto — Imaginary View of Padua
