Vedute di Roma designate ed incise da Giambattista Piranesi [picture]. [between 1748-1778?]

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Vedute di Roma designate ed incise da Giambattista Piranesi [picture]. [between 1748-1778?]

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Includes indexed plan of Rome and views, especially architectural, and specifically Pantheon, temples, arches, forums, Colosseum, churches, palaces, bridges, villas, ruins and waterfalls, also people, dress, flora and fauna.

138 prints : etching, b&w ; 77 x 112 cm. or smaller.

Haverford College Library

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Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

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The son of Angelo and Laura Piranesi, Giambattista Piranesi first came to Rome in 1740 as a young architect from Venice. He studied Roman history with an older brother, studied engraving in the studio of Giuseppe Vasi, as well as the art of perspective. In 1743, he traveled to Naples and studied painting, returning to Venice for a year when he became ill. He returned to Rome eventually moving to the Strada Felice at the Palazzo Tomati. He never left Rome after 1745 except briefly to Etruscan sit...