Vaas met maskers

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verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 2228

Art Historical Context

**Vaas met Maskers (Vase with Masks)**Giovanni Battista Piranesi,1778 Etching, 530 × 353 mm Step into the shadowy grandeur of 18th-century with Giovanni Battista Piranesi's *Vaas met Maskers a masterful etching from 1778. Piranesi, the visionary Italian artist and architect (1720–1778), was obsessed with antiquity, producing intricate prints that captured real and imagined Roman artifacts. This work likely belongs to his celebrated series *Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Tripodi, ed Altri Monumenti Antichi* (Vases, Candelabras, Cippi, Tripods, and Other Ancient Monuments), published that year. I...

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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...