Veduta dell’Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo, from: ‘Vedute di Roma’ (Views of Rome)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s rendering of the Colosseum “revealing the plan and exposing the structure. Piranesi’s labels … inform us of the location in which each rank of Roman society would have been seated, from the emperor and his court to the noble youth with their teachers.”