Cleveland Museum of Art
The Pyramid of Cestius, Rome
Michiel van Overbeek (Dutch, active 1663–1709) · c. 1650–80
The Pyramid of Cestius was constructed in Rome as a tomb in 12 BC during a fad for Egyptian things just a few years after Rome had conquered Cleopatra’s Egypt (30 BC).
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