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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, artist
Italian, 1720 - 1778
Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo in Roma (Amphitheater of Flavio called the Colosseum in Rome), pl. 12, from Antichit‡ romane de' tempi della repubblica, e de' primi imperatori disegnate ed incise da Giambattista Piranesi architetto veneziano(Roman antiquities from the time of the republic and the first emperors, designed and engraved by Giambattista Piranesi, Venetian architect), 1748
Etching
13.2 x 26.2 cm (image)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts 1963.30.2990
Artist Credit: all
Artist Biography: Draftsman, printmaker, architect, and art theorist. Large prints depict the buildings of classical and postclassical Rome and its vicinity and contributed considerably to Rome's fame and to the growth of classical archaeology and to the Neoclassical movement in art. Born to a stonemason and builder, studied with maternal uncle, a waterworks engineer. Went to Rome 1740 and studied etching with Giovanni Vasi. Etched a group of small views of Rome used to illustrate guide books, and in 1743 published the Prima Parte di Architetture e Prospettive. Returned to Venice 1743, studied with Tiepolo, and returned to Rome ca. 1745 to work on the Vedute di Roma, the Grotteschi, the Carceri, and Le Antichit‡ Romane, pub.ished 1748. 1751 Giovanni Bouchard published Le Magnificenze di Roma including 34 of the Vedute, 2nd editions of Le Antichit‡, and of the Carceri. Continued to publish from Rome working with son on further etchings the year of his death, 1778. Publication of his work by his family in Rome continued until 1798; in about 1800 sons moved to Paris and reisssued their father's plates from there (first Paris editions). Plates continued to be printed in paris until 1839, when they were bought by the Camera Apostolica and are now in possession of the Calcografia Nazionale. (see: 1973 Colnaghi catalogue, artist's file, for brief synopsis of dates and editions)~~Reference: Robison, Andrew. Piranesi: Early Architectural Fantasies. Washington: 1986.~Focillon, Henri. Piranesi. Paris: 1918.~Hind, Arthur M. Giovanni Battista Piranesi: A Critical Study. New York: 1922.~Wilton-Ely, John. Giovanni Batista Piranesi, The complete Etchings . 2 vols. (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1994)~
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