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Something wrong?He etched Rome's ruins with an archaeologist's precision and an architect's eye for the monumental - then invented prisons that never existed, vast and suffocating, that haunt the imagination harder than any real stone.
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Pietro Labruzzi portrait of Giovanni Battista Piranesi
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Altare maggiore della chiesa di Santa Maria del Priorato, before 1976 - Archivio Accademia delle Scienze Torino, Millon 49 18 307.jpg?width=1200)
An Ancient Port, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Getty 103R27)
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Aventino s Maria del Priorato - monumento funebre di Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Aventino s Maria del Priorato cenotafio Piranesi version
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi was born in Italy on 4 October 1720, trained in both architecture and archaeology. He made his name with etchings of Rome, rendering its classical remains in obsessive detail and at imposing scale. Then came the Carceri d'invenzione - imaginary prisons, atmospheric and impossible, where staircases spiral into shadow and vaulted chambers trap the eye. He had three children: Francesco, Laura, and Pietro. He died on 9 November 1778, leaving behind images of both what Rome was and what nightmares look like on copper.
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