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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Demonstration panel showing technique for raising travertine and marble blocks for the construction of the tomb of Cecilia Metella, Rome, from the series 'Le Antichità Romane'

1756
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52 × 72 cm (20.5 × 28.3 in)

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