Fine engraving representing the columns of the portico at the Pantheon in Rome. The shaft, capital, architrave and decorative elements. The shafts of the columns are over 20 m high and were brought from Egypt (they were carved in red and gray granite from Aswan in pharaonic times and were transported by Romans in the first century AD and adapted in the portico). The Pantheon is the only Roman building that has remained near complete and in good shape since classical antiquity. Francesco Piranesi (1758-1810) drew and published the work on the Pantheon as his first independent work after his father's death Giovanni Baptista Piranesi. Ref: Millard IV,74.
