Légende
View of the Pyramid of Cestius and the Porta San Paolo in Rome, album page, photograph, This photo is part of an album., inscription: '137 PIRAMIDE DI GAIO CESTIO CON PORTA S. PAOLO', Rome, 1870 - c. 1895, photographer, paper, pasteboard, albumen print, height 201 mm x width 259 mm, city-gate, pyramid (marking grave), Porta San Paolo, Pyramid of Cestius, A large stone pyramid with weathered, patterned blocks fills the left side, showing a pointed top and dark streaks on its surface, while to the right a fortified stone wall with crenellations stretches toward cylindrical towers with rounded battlements and arched openings, one tower featuring small window-like apertures and another forming an arched gateway leading into a shadowed passage; a dirt road runs in front of the structures with faint wheel or track marks, a shadowed tree or foliage appears near the rightmost tower, and a group of people recline on the ground in the shaded area at the pyramid’s base.
Crédit
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Notre référence
LZT26A76_404
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
35.3Mo (6.6Mo) / 33.7cm x 26.3cm / 3984 x 3101 (300dpi)