A View of the Ruins of the Baths of Caracalla
Cleveland Museum of Art

A View of the Ruins of the Baths of Caracalla

Giovanni Battista Lusieri (Italian, 1750–1825) · 1779–81

graphite, pen and black ink, watercolor
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

The artist Lusieri accompanied the British Lord Elgin to Athens in the late 1790s and participated in the dismantling of the Parthenon’s metope sculptures there, now famously called the Elgin marbles.

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