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    Giovanni Battista (or Giambattista) Piranesi (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni batˈtista piraˈneːzi; -eːsi]; also known as simply Piranesi; 4 October...
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  • title of the novel alludes to the 18th-century Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi, who produced a series of sixteen prints entitled Imaginary Prisons...
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  • Swiss politician. Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), artist. Giovanni Battista di Quadro, Polish-Italian architect. Giovanni Battista Re (1934–), cardinal...
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    Imaginary Prisons, is a series of 16 etchings by the Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 14 produced from c. 1745 to 1750, when the first edition of the...
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  • Italian art and architecture and to absorb classical culture. With Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), magnificence received one of its final interpretations...
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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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    engraver, etcher and architect. He was the son of the more famous Giovanni Battista Piranesi and continued his series of engravings representing monuments...
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    of the first individuals to draw the ruins of the theatre was Giovanni Battista Piranesi, who made two notable etchings depicting the theatre in the middle...
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    early, Greek temples created huge interest throughout Europe. Giovanni Battista Piranesi visited to make a book of highly atmospheric but also accurate...
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    never happened due to the outbreak of World War II. The architects were Giovanni Guerrini, Ernesto Bruno La Padula, and Mario Romano. McCaig's Tower, overlooking...
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  • participated in the 1774–1775 papal conclave. In the 1760s, he engaged Giovanni Battista Piranesi to enhance the structure of Rome's Santa Maria del Priorato Church...
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    additions. The vase was restored and/or rebuilt by the artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi, from a large number of Roman fragments from Hadrian's Villa at...
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    a project heavily influenced by others – such as Giovanni Battista Nolli, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Johann Joachim Winckelmann – to house Albani's...
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    participant in her family's print workshop, run by her father Giovanni Battista Piranesi, an Italian artist, etcher, and antiquarian. Participating in...
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    Gargiulo Giovanni Ghisolfi Gennaro Greco Francesco Guardi Ascanio Luciano Pietro Paltronieri Giovanni Paolo Panini Giovanni Battista Piranesi Hubert Robert...
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    screen of obelisks and stele constructed in 1765 to designs by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, one of the very few executed designs by this etcher of Roman...
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    of errors in perspective. Another early artistic forerunner is Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), whose dark "fantastical" prints such as The Drawbridge...
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    Capitol ascended by approximately one hundred steps . . .; by Giovanni Battista Piranesi; c.1750; etching; size of the entire sheet: 33.5 × 49.4 cm; Metropolitan...
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    expression of architecture." Giovanni Battista Piranesi was one of the greatest printmakers of the 18th century. Piranesi made prints of his architectural...
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    Wall Callcott, Henry Fuseli, William Hamilton and 15 drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, many of which are framed and displayed in the museum. There are...
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    continent studying architecture under Charles-Louis Clérisseau and Giovanni Battista Piranesi. On his return to Britain he established a practice in London...
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    to the present, including works by Rembrandt, William Hogarth, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Canaletto, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Henri Matisse and Sir William...
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    drawings and paintings by the Italian architect and engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi to Avery Library at Columbia University in the early 1970s. He...
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    Retrieved 23 September 2014.[permanent dead link] Giovanni Battista Piranesi (c. 1750). Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Alcune Vedute di Archi Trionfali ed altri...
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  • Massari Giovan Battista Montano Tomasso Napoli Giovanni Battista Nolli Andrea Palma Giovanni Paolo Pannini Giovanni Battista Piranesi Filippo Raguzzini...
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  • artists such as Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Étienne-Louis Boullée and Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Russell and Jarman were further influenced by the blank white...
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    parkland. A chimney-piece after the design of Venetian printmaker Giovanni Battista Piranesi was also added during his tenure. The so-called "Hell Staircase"...
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    The piazza di Spagna in an 18th-century etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, seen from south. The street on the left is Via del Babuino, leading to Piazza...
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    substantially renovated between 1764-66 according to the designs of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. It is his only architectural work. According to a 2019 account...
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    inspiration for visual artists for centuries. Especially notable is Giovanni Battista Piranesi, who created a set of 135 etchings, the Vedute di Roma ("Views...
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