Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Giovanni Battista (also Giambattista) Piranesi (4 October 1720 – 9 November 1778) was an Italian artist famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" (Carceri d'Invenzione).

Read more about Giovanni Battista Piranesi:  Biography, The Views (Vedute), The Prisons (Carceri)

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