In our time, he has had a direct influence on writers such as Borges and Kafka and on filmmakers such as Terry Gilliam and Peter Greenaway. Indeed, Piranesi could be said to have shaped a whole strain of contemporary architecture, as well as the wider visualization of antiquity itself. Giovanni Battista Piranesi Family Background Piranesi was born in Venice. Piranesi is famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric prisons (Le Carceri d’Invenzione). 1760, map on cotton canvas, 22x27' approx. He was the son of a stone mason and was trained as an architect. Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 1778) On October 4, 1720, Italian Classical archaeologist, architect, and artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi was born. Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Vedute di Roma, Remains of a Praetorian Fort at Hadrians Villa, c. Piranesi naskiis en Mogliano Veneto, e Treviso, tiam parto de la Respubliko Venecio. Giovanni Battista Piranesi Art Italian, 1720-1778 Piranesi was born in Venice in 1720 and died in Rome in 1778. In his own day, he was most celebrated for his Vedute, 137 etchings of ancient and modern Rome so renowned were these startling and dramatic chiaroscuro images, imbued with Piranesi's romantic feeling for archaeological ruins, that they formed the mental picture of Rome for generations after. Giovanni Battista (anka Giambattista) Piranesi dovanni battista piranesi naskiis la 4-an de oktobro 1720, mortis la 9-an de novembro 1778) estis itala novklasikisma artisto fama pro siaj akvafortoj pri Romo kaj pri fikciaj kaj strangetosaj 'prizonoj' (Carceri dInvenzione). Explore the complete etchings of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the 18th-century engraver famed for his architectural views of Rome and his imaginary prisons. Piranesi is published by Bloomsbury (14.99). The House on Vesper Sands by Paraic O’Donnell is published by W&N. Paestum Italy Interior of the Basilica from the South-West with the Temple of Neptune behind. One the greatest architectural artists of all time, and certainly the most famous copper engraver of the 18th century, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) is most known for his terrifyingly original series of etchings of labyrinthine and megalomaniac prisons, Carceri d'Invenzione. Detail from The Man on the Rack, 1761, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Giovanni Battista Piranesi Italy Architectural Drawings Pre-1900 Architecture Sir John Soanes Museum Black & White Architecture Travel Iconic Artists Pre-1900. The great 18th century architectural artist and master engraver "Piranesi was as savage as Salvator Rosa, fierce as Michelangelo, and exuberant as Rubens he has imagined scenes that would startle geometry and exhaust the Indies to realize." -Horace Walpole
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