# Frontispiece

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## Artwork

- Artist: [PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/piranesi-giovanni-battista-rf1bb0a837c170f>)
- Date: 1751-1800
- Technique: Etching, 400 x 600 mm

## Commentary

The picture shows the second frontispiece of Vol. III of Le Antichità Romane, published in four volumes in 1756 in Rome. Piranesi was much less interested in objectively reproducing Roman ruins than in suggestively depicting them in exaggerated form in picturesque circumstances.

## Related artworks

- [Carceri d&#39;Invenzione](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/piranesi-giovanni-battista-rf1bb0a837c170f/carceri-dinvenzione-r2df3567ea10e58>)
- [Carceri d&#39;Invenzione](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/piranesi-giovanni-battista-rf1bb0a837c170f/carceri-dinvenzione-r903242b0bd02b1>)
- [Diverse Maniere d&#39;adornare i Cammini](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/piranesi-giovanni-battista-rf1bb0a837c170f/diverse-maniere-dadornare-i-cammini-rbd7d7ed35f7f6d>)
- [Exterior view](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/piranesi-giovanni-battista-rf1bb0a837c170f/exterior-view-r24840a73d5c2fb>)
- [Interior view](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/piranesi-giovanni-battista-rf1bb0a837c170f/interior-view-re19fa4a97159d1>)
- [Palazzo Barberini, Rome](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/piranesi-giovanni-battista-rf1bb0a837c170f/palazzo-barberini-rome-ra864cbb74db6ec>)
- [Porto di Ripetta](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/piranesi-giovanni-battista-rf1bb0a837c170f/porto-di-ripetta-r5886e81252cf2b>)
- [Prisoners on a Projecting Platform](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/piranesi-giovanni-battista-rf1bb0a837c170f/prisoners-on-a-projecting-platform-r7bd82ba2e8baf1>)
- [Round Tower](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/piranesi-giovanni-battista-rf1bb0a837c170f/round-tower-re0ecc89b2f6327>)
- [Ruins of the Antonine Baths](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/piranesi-giovanni-battista-rf1bb0a837c170f/ruins-of-the-antonine-baths-rb718a4a82207db>)
- [Ruins of the Temple of Minerva](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/piranesi-giovanni-battista-rf1bb0a837c170f/ruins-of-the-temple-of-minerva-r12b6e02781aa6e>)
- [Self-Portrait](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/piranesi-giovanni-battista-rf1bb0a837c170f/self-portrait-r797a8118c193aa>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)