Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Italian, 1720-1778
![Ruins of the Xystus [a long open portico used for athletic exercises], the central hall of the Antonine Baths [The Baths of Caracalla], from Views of Rome](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/eba5f92e-ff3b-2f33-6c2f-1a901e175dfd/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
Ruins of the Xystus [a long open portico used for athletic exercises], the central hall of the Antonine Baths [The Baths of Caracalla], from Views of Rome
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Italian, 1720-17781765
Ruins of the Xystus [a long open portico used for athletic exercises], the central hall of the Antonine Baths [The Baths of Caracalla], from Views of Rome
Giovanni Battista Piranesi Italian, 1720-1778 →etchingprint
Date
1765
Medium
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 42.5 × 65 cm (16 3/4 × 25 5/8 in.); Plate: 43 × 65.6 cm (16 15/16 × 25 7/8 in.); Sheet: 48.1 × 69 cm (18 15/16 × 27 3/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
The Charles Deering Collection
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