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Giovanni Battista Lusieri

A View of the Ruins of the Baths of Caracalla

1779–81
graphite, pen and black ink, watercolor

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

The artist Lusieri accompanied the British Lord Elgin to Athens in the late 1790s and participated in the dismantling of the Parthenon’s metope sculptures there, now famously called the Elgin marbles.

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