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Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 – 1778)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778): Italian master of etching famed for dramatic Roman architecture, fantastical 'Carceri' prisons & detailed cityscapes. A Neoclassical visionary.
About this artwork
- Title: The Roman antiquities, t. 2, Plate XV. Inscriptions and fragments of the burial chambers of the Family Arrunzia (figures carved from Barbault).
- Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
- Year: 1756
- Format: Landscape
- Copyright status: Public domain
- Creative period: Mature Period
- Corpus context: melancholic beauty , neoclassical ideals
- Keywords: fragmented sculpture , italian art history , detailed engraving
- Perceived brightness: brilliant
- Topics: classical art , piranesi's work , burial chambers
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