Giovanni Battista Piranesi

(Majano di Mestre, 1720 - Venezia, 1778)

A) Ruin of an ancient Sepulcher placed in front of other ruins of an Aqueduct; etching, mm. 385x240. 

B) Relics of ancient Buildings among which there is the Sepulchral Urn all in one piece of porphyry of Marco Agrippa which today serves for the Sepulcher of Clement XII; etching, mm. 385x240. 

Taken from "First part of architectures and perspectives / invented and engraved by Giambatista Piranesi, Venetian architect, among the Arcadians Salicindio Tiseio".