Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian), 1720-1778 - Featured artist works, exhibitions and biography fromHarris Schrank Fine Prints

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Forum of Nerva; With the Two Half-Buried Corinthian Columns 1770

Biography

1740

Moves to Rome after being trained as an architect in Venice

1748

Published in a portfolio of etchings called Le Antichita Romane ( Roman Antiquities)

1761

Est. his own publishing house