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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Making a living from etchings

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, The Artists

Portrait of Giovanni Battista Piranesi

“I need to produce great ideas, and I believe that if I were commissioned to design a new universe, I would be mad enough to undertake it.” Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Giovanni Battista Piranesi was an Italian Printmaker born on October 4, 1720. Battista Piranesi contributed to the Neoclassical and Baroque movements and died on November 17, 1778.

Mary Edmonia Lewis, The Artists

Portrait of Mary Edmonia Lewis

Mary Edmonia Lewis

African-American Chippewa woman takes over sculpture

Anne-Louis Girodet, The Artists

Portrait of Anne-Louis Girodet

Anne-Louis Girodet

A phenom works himself to death

Benjamin West, The Artists

Portrait of Benjamin West

Benjamin West

Judith Leyster, The Artists

Portrait of Judith Leyster

Judith Leyster

Jovial portraitist forgotten for 200 years

Peter Paul Rubens, The Artists

Portrait of Peter Paul Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens

Great painter, perfect entrepreneur

Georges de La Tour, The Artists

Georges de La Tour

A Caravaggisti embraces silence

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The Family of Nainsukh

Marianne Loir

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Anna Dorothea Therbusch

George Stubbs

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