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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

1761

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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.

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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

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

Accession Number: 52.519.87(88)

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Rome and Southern Italy, 1600-1800 A.D.

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