Imagining antiquity
Apr 22, 2020
2 minutes
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI began his career as a printmaker by supplying small engravings of Roman sights for the Grand Tourist trade, but he very quickly turned to much more ambitious and original compositions.
Indeed, the name Piranesi immediately conjures up large-scale etchings of fantastical prisons or of Roman monuments. He was an exciting draftsman, too, but his drawings are not so well known as so many of them are
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