(45.7 x 58.4 cm.) Sale: Estimate: Price: Bid Department: Price Database Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 10 million auction results. Posthumous work, it is a compendium of various items of Roman furniture, will make the rules as regards Neoclassical furniture fashion and flavour in European affluent salons of 17-18 th century. Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 17201778) Title: Architectural elements Medium: Etching Size: 18 x 23 in. ![]() Piranesi, published in the year 1778), printed and integrated by his son Francesco. Piranesi pubblicati l’anno MDCCLXXIIX”, 1778, (Vases, candelabras, grave,stones,sarcophagi,tripods, lamps, and ornaments designed and etched by Cav. The versatile Piranesi was a printmaker, archaeologist, architect, and designer. By this time he was already very famous, and created the series of decorative plates of antiquities, collected in his work “Vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi, tripodi, lucerne, ed ornamenti antichi disegnati ed incisi dal cav. Giovanni Battista Piranesi dovani batista piranezi (Mogliano Veneto, cerca de Treviso, 4 de octubre de 1720 Roma, 9 de noviembre de 1778) fue un arqueólogo, arquitecto, investigador y grabador italiano. In the last period, Piranesi’s activities, above all as an editor, were characterised by a more commercial flavour. Generations after him would continue to imagine Ancient Rome as he portrayed it in his magnificent “ Vedute”. Giovanni Battista Piranesi is well-known as an architect, an archaeologist and, undoubtedly as the most important engraver of the 18th century: the leading artist in this field in the period going from Rembrandt to Goya. 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.
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