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    Francesco Piranesi (Italian pronunciation: [franˈtʃesko piraˈneːzi; -eːsi]; 1758/59 – 23 January 1810) was an Italian engraver, etcher and architect. He...
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    (Carceri d'invenzione). He was the father of Francesco Piranesi, Laura Piranesi and Pietro Piranesi. Piranesi was born in Venice, in the parish of San Moisè...
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  • Piranesi is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), Italian artist Francesco Piranesi (1758/59–1810)...
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    Raccolta de' tempj antichi, tav. // Opere di Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Francesco Piranesi e d'altri. Firmin Didot Freres, Paris, 1835-1839. Tomo 6. James...
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    Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and brother, Francesco Piranesi. Laura Piranesi was born in Rome in 1754. The eldest of five Piranesi children, Laura had...
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    Holy Child by Vincenzo de' Rossi. To the sides are paintings (1661) by Francesco Cozza, one of the Virtuosi: Adoration of the Shepherds on left side and...
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    never fully completed, is represented in a famous copper engraving by Francesco Piranesi from 1785. It seems that Memmo commissioned this and other representations...
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    frescoes in the salone of Villa Lante, on the Janiculum Hill in Rome. Francesco Piranesi and Tommaso Piroli published these frescoes in a series of engravings...
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    by Francesco Piranesi in "Monumenti degli Scipioni." Francesco was completing a previous incomplete work by his father, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, who...
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  • Carlo Fontana, and Borsani Claudio. The Spanish Steps in an engraving by Piranesi Facade of Trinità dei Pellegrini The Steps in a 1908 photograph (in Italian)...
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    Count Francesco Algarotti (11 December 1712 – 3 May 1764) was an Italian polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector...
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  • (born 1755) January 23 John Hoppner, portrait painter (born 1758) Francesco Piranesi, Italian engraver and architect (born 1756/1758) March 1 – Jean-Jacques...
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    Guardi, Piazzetta and Bellotto, but also from Rome and Genoa, such as Piranesi and Pannini. Artists such as Castiglione and Alessandro Magnasco brought...
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  • Bartolomeo Pinelli Ezio Pinza Giampiero Pinzi Piotta Alessandro Piperno Francesco Piranesi Emanuele Pirro Marco Pisano Claudio Pistolesi Pope Pius XII Violante...
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  • British history and portrait painter (died 1796) (b. 1756/1758) – Francesco Piranesi, Italian engraver and architect (died 1810) January 25 – Christoph...
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  • compatriot Jacques Sablet, but also views by competing artists such as Francesco Piranesi and Louis-Jean Desprez. The newspapers began to talk about him and...
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  • Genoa Georg Gustaf Wrangel 1788–1793 Minister Plenipotentiary Genoa Francesco Piranesi 1790–1794 Resident Rome Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt 7 September 1792 –...
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  • calligrapher (died 1831) (b. 1756/1758) – Francesco Piranesi, Italian engraver and architect (died 1810) February 28 – Francesco Maria Raineri, Italian sculptor...
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    Buzzi Bartolomeo Cavaceppi Ercole Ferrata Francesco Fontana Francesco Nocchieri Giovanni Battista Piranesi Vincenzo Pacetti I. Bignamini, C. Hornsby,...
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  • Belgium Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), Spain Francesco Piranesi (1778–1810), Italy Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), Italy Camille Pissarro (1830–1903)...
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  • architect, economist and social reformer (born 1736) January 23 – Francesco Piranesi, Italian engraver, etcher and architect (born 1756 or 1758) Goold...
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  • English architect working in India (died 1819) Approximate date – Francesco Piranesi, Italian-born architectural engraver and architect (died 1810) February...
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  • Boselli Ippolito Buzzi Bartolomeo Cavaceppi Ercole Ferrata Francesco Fontana Giovanni Battista Piranesi Vincenzo Pacetti The engraving of Nocchieri's Apollo...
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  • Giovanni Battista Piranesi Filippo Raguzzini Girolamo Rainaldi Carlo Rainaldi Pietro Rosa Mattia de Rossi Nicola Sabbatini Nicola Salvi Francesco de Sanctis...
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    the printmakers Francesco Piranesi (1758-1810) and his brother Pietro Piranesi (1773-after 1807), the sons of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. In 1805 he established...
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  • Giovanni Antonio Antolini, Italian architect (d. 1841) 1756 or 1758 – Francesco Piranesi, Italian-born architectural engraver and architect (d. 1810) July...
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    London. Diverse Manieri: Piranesi, Fantasy and Excess aimed to explore the relationship between Sir John Soane and Piranesi. The objects were shown in...
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    between Nolli and Giovanni Battista Piranesi, was published in the same year the original map was finished. Piranesi was instrumental in getting the work...
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    tradition, with clear citations of Maurizio Sacripanti and Giovan Battista Piranesi, which refer to the splendour of a metaphysic character. "Torre Eurosky"...
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    the bottom of the steps. The stairway was designed by the architects Francesco de Sanctis and Alessandro Specchi. Generations of heated-debate over how...
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