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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.

Alexandre Cabanel, The Artists

Portrait of Alexandre Cabanel

Alexandre Cabanel

Creativity vs the Académie

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, The Artists

Portrait of Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

Painted for Marie Antoinette and never made a dime

Mary Edmonia Lewis, The Artists

Portrait of Mary Edmonia Lewis

Mary Edmonia Lewis

African-American Chippewa woman takes over sculpture

Caravaggio, The Artists

Portrait of Caravaggio

Caravaggio

How a murderer invented Baroque painting

Rembrandt van Rijn, The Artists

Portrait of Rembrandt van Rijn

Rembrandt van Rijn

Your actions leave a mark

Georges de La Tour, The Artists

Georges de La Tour

A Caravaggisti embraces silence

17011800

The Family of Nainsukh

Marianne Loir

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Anna Dorothea Therbusch

George Stubbs

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