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A work made of etching on heavy ivory laid paper.

View of St. Peter's Basilica and Piazza in the Vatican, from Views of Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi · 1748

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Palette

Ivory
 49% of the image
Green · text contrast 15.2:1
Pale stone
 17% of the image
Green · text contrast 10.4:1
Taupe
 14% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.4:1
Sepia
 9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.1:1
Lichen
 8% of the image
Green · text contrast 7.2:1
Soot
 3% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.8:1

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
1748
Type
Print
Medium
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper
Size
Image: 38 × 53.6 cm (15 × 21 1/8 in.); Plate: 40.4 × 54.3 cm (15 15/16 × 21 7/16 in.); Sheet: 52.2 × 66.5 cm (20 9/16 × 26 3/16 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
18th century
Themes
Cities and streets
Main colour
Green · lightness 73, colourfulness 15

Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago. 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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