Le Antichità Romane
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
ca. 1756 - ca. 1757
Medium
etching
Dimensions
522; 521; 67; 368
About this artwork
plaatrand: hoogte 368 mm (Boven.) x breedte 521 mm (Boven.) x hoogte 67 mm (Onder.) x breedte 522 mm (Onder.)
About the Artist
Giovanni Battista Piranesi · 1720–1778
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) was an Italian printmaker, architect, and antiquarian whose visionary etchings of Rome and imaginary prisons revolutionized architectural representation and profoundly influenced both Neoclassicism and Romanticism. Piranesi stands as one of the most important printmakers of the eighteenth century, fundamentally shaping European perceptions of ancient Rome an...