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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Ruins of the Xystus [a long open portico used for athletic exercises], the central hall of the Antonine Baths [The Baths of Caracalla], from Views of Rome

1765, published 1800–07
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper
42.6 × 65.1 cm (16.8 × 25.6 in)

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