Piramide de Caius Cestius, from "Les Plus Beaux Monuments de Rome Ancienne ou Recueil des plus beaux Morceaux de l'Antiquité Romaine qui existent encore"
Plate 46, View of the Pyramid or Mausoleum of Cestius, with a pedestal for a now-missing bronze statue in the foreground at right, and the Aurelian Walls and the Tower of Porta San Paolo (Gate of St. Paul) visible in the background. This image, one of twenty-nine full-page plates in the volume, faces page 79, the first of two pages of text describing the mausoleum.
Artwork Details
- Title: Piramide de Caius Cestius, from "Les Plus Beaux Monuments de Rome Ancienne ou Recueil des plus beaux Morceaux de l'Antiquité Romaine qui existent encore"
- Series/Portfolio: Les Plus Beaux Monuments de Rome Ancienne ou Recueil des plus beaux Morceaux de l'Antiquité Romaine qui existent encore
- Artist: After Jean Barbault (French, Viarmes 1718–1762 Rome)
- Engraver: Dominico Montagu (Italian, active Rome, ca. 1750–76)
- Printer: Giunchi Heritiers de Komarek
- Publisher: Bouchard & Gravier (Rome)
- Published in: Rome
- Date: 1761
- Medium: Etching
- Dimensions: Plate: 14 1/2 × 10 1/16 in. (36.9 × 25.5 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1952
- Object Number: 52.519.87(88)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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