The Pantheon, broken away to show the interior, from "Speculum Romanae

An engraved architectural cutaway of a domed Roman temple, with its portico of columns on the left and a section removed to reveal the coffered dome and interior colonnade. Fine hatching models the stone, and clouds drift above the roof. The drawing presents the building as a clear, measured diagram.

Look closer: Small figures are faintly visible at the far left base of the portico, giving scale to the building.

Artist

Anonymous

Date

1553

Medium

Engraving

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3746 × 2869 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941