Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, "Tempio antico..."
View of the ruins of a Roman temple with persons and goats in the foreground, in the lower part titled "Tempio antico volgarmente detto della Salute...", etching, 1763, signed "Piranesi F" under the illustration on the left, minor defects of preservation, under passepartout and framed behind glass, dimensions of the illustration approx. 40.5 x 55 cm. Artist info: significant. Italian engraver, draughtsman, archaeologist, publisher, architect and architectural theorist (1720 Mogliano Veneto near Treviso until 1778 Rome), trained as an architect at the Magistrato delle Acque with his uncle Matteo Lucchesi in Venice, then trained as a stage designer with Giovanni Scalfarotto and etching and perspective with Carlo Zucchi, 1740 travelled to Rome as a draughtsman in the entourage of the Venetian envoy at the Vatican Marco Foscarini, where he initially worked as an architect for economic reasons he turned to painting and copper engraving, 1741 pupil in copper engraving and etching with the veduta draughtsman Giuseppe Vasi, 1743 publication of the first collection of copper engraved vedutas 1743 via Naples and the excavations that had just begun in Pompeii Return to Venice, 1743-47 stay with Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in Venice, 1748 back in Rome and until 1774 created further series of vedute of baroque and antique monuments, promoted by Pope Benedict XIV, 1757 accepted into the London Society for the Study of Antiquities, 1761 founded his own publishing house and accepted into the Accademia di San Luca, 1763 commissioned by Pope Clement XIII to rebuild the choir of San Giovanni in Laterano, 1764 commissioned by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Rezzonico to redesign Santa Maria del Priorato, 1767 appointed knight by Clemens XIII, from then on signed his works "Cavalier Piranesi F.", source: Thieme-Becker and Internet. Automatically translated by DeepL. To see the original version, click here.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, "Tempio antico..."
View of the ruins of a Roman temple with persons and goats in the foreground, in the lower part titled "Tempio antico volgarmente detto della Salute...", etching, 1763, signed "Piranesi F" under the illustration on the left, minor defects of preservation, under passepartout and framed behind glass, dimensions of the illustration approx. 40.5 x 55 cm. Artist info: significant. Italian engraver, draughtsman, archaeologist, publisher, architect and architectural theorist (1720 Mogliano Veneto near Treviso until 1778 Rome), trained as an architect at the Magistrato delle Acque with his uncle Matteo Lucchesi in Venice, then trained as a stage designer with Giovanni Scalfarotto and etching and perspective with Carlo Zucchi, 1740 travelled to Rome as a draughtsman in the entourage of the Venetian envoy at the Vatican Marco Foscarini, where he initially worked as an architect for economic reasons he turned to painting and copper engraving, 1741 pupil in copper engraving and etching with the veduta draughtsman Giuseppe Vasi, 1743 publication of the first collection of copper engraved vedutas 1743 via Naples and the excavations that had just begun in Pompeii Return to Venice, 1743-47 stay with Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in Venice, 1748 back in Rome and until 1774 created further series of vedute of baroque and antique monuments, promoted by Pope Benedict XIV, 1757 accepted into the London Society for the Study of Antiquities, 1761 founded his own publishing house and accepted into the Accademia di San Luca, 1763 commissioned by Pope Clement XIII to rebuild the choir of San Giovanni in Laterano, 1764 commissioned by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Rezzonico to redesign Santa Maria del Priorato, 1767 appointed knight by Clemens XIII, from then on signed his works "Cavalier Piranesi F.", source: Thieme-Becker and Internet. Automatically translated by DeepL. To see the original version, click here.
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