Technique: oil on paper applied on canvas Dimensions: 47x38 cm; with frame 55x46 cm Giovanni Paolo Panini (workshop of) Architectural capriccio of the Cestia Pyramid, with classical crater, oil on paper applied to canvas, 47x38 cm; with frame 55x46 cm Among the classical ruins near Porta San Paolo in Rome, a painter seems intent on sketching a composition on a sheet of paper, while two figures - one armed and the other pointing at the antiquities around him - enter the scene from the right. The combination of the Cestia pyramid and the stone crater can be found in an 18th century print by Giovanni Paolo Panini, entitled Ruins of the Peloponnese.