Mix-up: Colosseo, Piranesi Arte moderna I offer you an octopus

I offer you an octopus worthy of Julius Verne and his "Twenty thousand leagues under the sea"

who lived between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

kept in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool

It was painted to represent the cultural climate of the house of Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte

in cui Psiche rappresenta l’anima umana

Mix-up: Colosseo, Piranesi Arte moderna I offer you an octopusThe Colosseum is the symbol of the city of Rome, one of the seven wonders of the world, immortalized by the unsurpassed prints of the 1700s by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. A reminder of the greatness of Rome and its classicism, from antiquity to recent times. Printed on a sheet of an ancient Italian art encyclopedia. Frame not included.