Author Biography
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) - an outstanding Italian graphic artist, architect, archaeologist. As the architect-practitioner, Piranesi built the Church of Santa Maria Maltese Priory on the hill of Aventine (1764-1765). The Pope instructed him to build a choir in the church of San Giovanni in Laterano. He was buried in the Church of Santa Maria, built by him in Rome.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)
"The ruins of a gallery of sculptures at the villa of Adrian in Tivoli" from the series "The Landscapes of Rome", 1770
paper,
engraving
Sheet size: 49 x 62 cm
Image size: 45.3 x 59.1 cm
Signed on the metal plate from bottom to left, the name on the right
Watermark on paper
Lifetime edition
Certificate of Authenticity of the Doctor of Arts at the University of Barcelona, one of the leading European experts from the Renaissance - Alaa de Terra
Author Biography
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) - an outstanding Italian graphic artist, architect, archaeologist. As the architect-practitioner, Piranesi built the Church of Santa Maria Maltese Priory on the hill of Aventine (1764-1765). The Pope instructed him to build a choir in the church of San Giovanni in Laterano. He was buried in the Church of Santa Maria, built by him in Rome.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)
"The ruins of a gallery of sculptures at the villa of Adrian in Tivoli" from the series "The Landscapes of Rome", 1770
paper,
engraving
Sheet size: 49 x 62 cm
Image size: 45.3 x 59.1 cm
Signed on the metal plate from bottom to left, the name on the right
Watermark on paper
Lifetime edition
Certificate of Authenticity of the Doctor of Arts at the University of Barcelona, one of the leading European experts from the Renaissance - Alaa de Terra