The Capitol and the steps of S. Maria in Aracoeli (Veduta del Romano Camipidoglio con scalinata che va alla chiesa d'Araceli)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
ca. 1775 · etching · Drawings and Prints

- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi
- Date
- ca. 1775
- Medium
- etching
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Edward W. Root, Elihu Root Jr. and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant III, 1937







![View of the Basilica of San Sebastiano fuori delle mura [St. Sebastian outside the Walls] on the Appian Way, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views)](https://d2pvxr3eb77vb4.cloudfront.net/assets/v1/d3/d3d88c322cf80b2f3f21cc63d22026862614ef1d5d4dc30d97e24cc03215f90d/graph.webp)



![Plate 10: 'The ancient Capitol ascended by approximately one hundred steps [...]' (Campidoglio antico a cui si ascendeva per circa cento gradini [...]), from the series 'Part one of architecture and perspectives: drawn and etched by Gio. Batt'a Piranesi, Venetian Architect: dedicated to Nicola Giobbe' (Prima parte di Architetture, e prospettive inventate, ed incise da Gio. Batt'a Piranesi Architetto Veneziano dedicate al Sig. Nicola Giobbe)](https://d2pvxr3eb77vb4.cloudfront.net/assets/v1/78/78452ff3a2d1e34c541fc2d7d56d1f71e17fced35dc25013340de747968fdd10/graph.webp)