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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Layered arches, stairways, and a plume of smoke fill an immense imagined stone interior.

The Prisons: A Perspective of Arches with a Smoking Fire

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Skeletons and ruined sculptural fragments lie among jagged rocks beneath a sweeping arch.

The Skeletons

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

A spiral stair wraps around a heavy stone column beneath lofty vaults and barred openings.

The Prisons: A Vaulted Building with a Central Column with Barred Window

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Broad steps climb through an immense prison interior crossed by beams and ropes.

The Prisons: Colonnaded Interior with a Broad Stair

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

A tall cylindrical tomb rises from a broad weathered base among plants and rubble.

Views of Rome: The Tomb, called La Connocchia

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Giovanni Battista Piranesi