Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 - 1778)
Nationality:Italian
Movement: Neoclassicism
Media: Architecture,Engraving
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Biography:
Giovanni Battista Piranesi was born in Venice where he was taught to draw by his designer uncle. He initially studied stage design and perspective, revealing a talent for architecture. Piranesi moved to Rome at the age of twenty to study the city’s ancient monuments. He spent his time producing etchings of ancient ruins and modern buildings. He later traveled to southern Italy to study and etch Greek architecture. While on this trip, he fell ill and was forced return home to Rome, where he died not long after. His work was widely inspirational to later artists and literary figures in the Neoclassical and Romantic periods.

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Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)