Plan of the animal cages built by Domitian for the Amphitheater... [with elevation and section of the buried portion; the so-called Curia Hostilia was actually the substructure of the Temple of Claudius, near SS. Giovanni e Paolo], tome 4, tavola 53 from "Le Antichità Romane" (Roman Antiquities)

Title: Plan of the animal cages built by Domitian for the Amphitheater... [with elevation and section of the buried portion; the so-called Curia Hostilia was actually the substructure of the Temple of Claudius, near SS. Giovanni e Paolo], tome 4, tavola 53 from "Le Antichità Romane" (Roman Antiquities)

Series/Portfolio: Le Antichità Romane, tome 4

Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome)

Publisher: Angelo Rotili

Date: published 1756–57

Medium: Etching

Dimensions: sheet: 21 1/4 x 31 1/2 in. (54 x 80 cm)
plate: 15 9/16 x 23 7/16 in. (39.5 x 59.5 cm)

Classification: Prints

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library

Accession Number: 41.71.1.4(53)