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Giovanni Battista Piranesi: English: The Colosseum   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Giovanni Battista Piranesi  (1720–1778)  wikidata:Q316307 s:it:Autore:Giovanni Battista Piranesi q:it:Giovanni Battista Piranesi
 
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Description Italian printmaker, architect and engraver
Date of birth/death 4 October 1720 Edit this at Wikidata 9 November 1778 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Mogliano Veneto, Republic of Venice Rome, Papal States
Work period 1740 Edit this at Wikidata–1778 Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q316307
Title
English: The Colosseum
Date 1757
date QS:P571,+1757-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium
English: Drawing
Dimensions
English: 444 x 701 mm
Source/Photographer R.S. Johnson fine art
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The Colosseum, etching, 1757

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