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Aurelian Wall with aqueducts and Muro Torto at Rome
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Aurelian Wall with aqueducts and Muro Torto at Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi · c. 1756 - c. 1757 · etching; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Sheet with two representations of Roman buildings. Top: view of the Aurelian Wall with the superimposed channels of the three aqueducts Aqua Julia, Aqua Tepula and Aqua Marcia. Top left a plan on an unrolled sheet and numbered: Plate XI. Top right numbered: Fig. I. Explanatory list with numbers in lower margin. Bottom: schematic representation and plan of the Muro Torto. Middle bottom a detail of one of the terracotta pipes through which water flowed according to the explanatory list with letters in the lower margin. Top left numbered: Fig. II.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineAureliaanse Muur met aquaducten en Muro Torto te Rome. c. 1756 - c. 1757. Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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