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Small figures engaged in various activities are dwarfed by the crumbling ruins of a forum. At t…
Parte del Foro di Nerva.
Small figures engaged in various activities are dwarfed by the crumbling ruins of a forum. At t…
Small figures engaged in various activities are dwarfed by the crumbling ruins of a forum. At the center are two monumental Corinthian columns holding aloft the remnants of walls to an additional story.
Parte del Foro di Nerva, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, c. 1748, etching on paper, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia.

Parte del Foro di Nerva.

Artist (Italian, 1720 - 1778)
Datec. 1748
MediumEtching on paper
DimensionsPlate: 5 1/4 × 10 1/2 inches (13.3 × 26.7 cm)
Portfolio/SeriesPlate 5, "Antichità romane de’ tempi della repubblica e de’ primi imperatori disegnate ed incise da Giambattista Prianesi architetetto veneziano" series
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Julianna F. Waring.
Object number2020.17.2
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