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Giovanni Battista PiranesiMaking a living from etchings

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.

“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

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Arch of Titus

1748

Architecture, Perspectives, Grotesques, Antiquities

1749

The Grand Piazza

1750

The Pyramid of Caius Cestius

1755

Plan of Rome / From Le Antichità Romane

1756

Appian Way

1756

Elevation and Plan of Theater of Marcellus

1756

Plan of a Tomb on the Appian Way in Vigna Buonamici

1756

Imaginary Prisons: Title Plate

1761

The Man on the Rack

1761

Ponte Molle

1762

Della Magnificenza e d'Architettura de' Romani

1765

Temple of Bacchus

1767

Hadrian's Villa

1768

Interior Views of Rome

1768

Caffè degli Inglesi

1769

Chimneypiece in Greek Style

1769

Waterfalls at Tivoli

1769

Chimneypiece: Frieze of Trophies and Winged Victories

1769

View of St. Peter's and the Piazza

1775

Aqueduct of Nero

1775

Hadrian's Villa: The Piazza d'Oro

1776

Catalogo delle Opere

1861

Angelica Kauffmann

A feminist prodigy charms the European elite

1741-1807

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Creating beauty by the rules

1825-1905

Alexandre Cabanel

Favorite of the salon, a classical painter with an erotic edge

1823-1889

Caravaggio

How a murderer invented Baroque painting

1571-1610

Rembrandt van Rijn

Your sins and your good deeds will leave a mark

1606-1669

Judith Leyster

Jovial portraitist forgotten for 200 years

1609-1660
17011800
A printmaker analyzes taste — and beauty comes out on top
William Hogarth
A dynasty of royal painters
The Family of Nainsukh Giovanni Battista Piranesi
A disgraced silversmith, last of a dynasty
François-Thomas Germain
We're all young and hot — let's make out
Jean-Honoré Fragonard

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