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Roman Ruins with Figures
Giovanni Paolo Panini (Italian, 1691 - 1765)
ca. 1745
- Medium
- Graphite, brush and watercolor on white paper
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- H x W: 38.3 × 27 cm (15 1/16 × 10 5/8 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Vertical rectangle. Unfinished composition showing a ruined vaulted structure before which is a relief showing three standing figures. At left, sculptures of the Belvedere Torso [Vatican Museum] and the Borghese Warrior [Louvre]. Various figures in conversation.
