France. 1686 - 1755
Figure, genre, landscape and allegorical painting, tapestry design
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1720 Mogliano, Italy - 1778 Rome, Italy. Known for: Ancient cityscape etching and painting, modernist figure and cityscape.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). He was a major Italian printmaker, architect and antiquarian. The son of a Venetian master builder, he studied architecture and stage design, through which he... Read full biography
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). He was a major Italian printmaker, architect and antiquarian. The son of a Venetian master builder, he studied architecture and stage design, through which he became familiar with Illusionism*. During a visit (1740) to Rome, which was then emerging as the... Read full biography
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). He was a major Italian printmaker, architect and antiquarian. The son of a Venetian master builder, he studied architecture and stage design, through which he became familiar with Illusionism*. During a visit (1740) to Rome, which was then emerging as the center of European Neoclassicism*, Piranesi began his lifelong obsession with the visual diversity of the city's architecture. He was taught (1740-44) etching*, the art form for which he remains best... Read full biography
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). He was a major Italian printmaker, architect and antiquarian. The son of a Venetian master builder, he studied architecture and stage design, through which he became familiar with Illusionism*. During a visit (1740) to Rome, which was then emerging as the center of European Neoclassicism*, Piranesi began his lifelong obsession with the visual diversity of the city's architecture. He was taught (1740-44) etching*, the art form for which he remains best known, by Giuseppe Vasi. Piranesi then began to etch views of Roman architecture that reflected his deeply felt emotional response to the surviving remnants of ancient grandeur. Piranesi's etchings, executed from the 1740s onward, are technically... Read full biography
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). He was a major Italian printmaker, architect and antiquarian. The son of a Venetian master builder, he studied architecture and stage design, through which he became familiar with Illusionism*. During a visit (1740) to Rome, which was then emerging as the center of European Neoclassicism*, Piranesi began his lifelong obsession with the visual diversity of the city's architecture. He was taught (1740-44) etching*, the art form for which he remains best known, by Giuseppe Vasi. Piranesi then began to etch views of Roman architecture that reflected his deeply felt emotional response to the surviving remnants of ancient grandeur. Piranesi's etchings, executed from the 1740s onward, are technically masterful evocations of ancient buildings that are simultaneously scholarly inquiries and fanciful essays in space, light,... Read full biography
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Study of four figures
Giovanni Battista PiranesiStudy of four figures
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A STANDING MAN AT WORK, HIS HANDS ON THE EDGE OF A TABLE
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Homme debout tourné vers la gauche
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