Ancient Altar on which sacrifices were performed in antiquity, surrounded by other ruins (Ara antica sopra la quale si facevano anticamente i sagrifizi, con altre ruine all'intorno), from "Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive"
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Portfolio: Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive (Part One of Architecture and Perspectives)
Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artist bio: Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Italian
Date: ca. 1750
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Plate: 9 1/2 × 13 3/4 in. (24.2 × 34.9 cm)
Sheet: 13 1/4 × 19 7/16 in. (33.7 × 49.3 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937
Accession year: 1937
Tags: Ruins|Skeletons|Men