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. 3, Plate XV. View of a large boulder, a relic of the Tomb of the Family? Metelli on the Appian Way about five miles from the Porta S. Sebastian, in the Hamlet of S. Maria Nuova, etc.
- Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
- Format: Square
- Copyright status: Public domain
- Movement: Neo Classicism
- Perceived brightness: balanced
