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A work made of etching on heavy ivory laid paper.

View of the Temple of Jupiter Tonans [Jupiter the Thunderer], from Views of Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi · 1750/59

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Palette

Pale stone
 31% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.8:1
Taupe
 21% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.4:1
Stone
 17% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.8:1
Putty
 13% of the image
Green · text contrast 8.7:1
Sepia
 10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.8:1
Graphite
 8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.4:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Italian, 1720-1778
Date
1750/59
Type
Print
Medium
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper
Size
Image: 37.7 × 59.6 cm (14 7/8 × 23 1/2 in.); Plate: 40 × 60 cm (15 3/4 × 23 5/8 in.); Sheet: 47.5 × 67.2 cm (18 3/4 × 26 1/2 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
18th century
Themes
Cities and streets · Myths and legends
Main colour
Green · lightness 61, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, The Charles Deering Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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