DETAILS
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi
- Date
- 1743
- Medium
- etching and engraving
- Location
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- [object Object]
- Collection
- Prints
- Culture
- Italy, 18th century
- Credit line
- Gift of Willard M. Clapp
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THE ARTIST
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the 18th-century Italian master of etching, transformed the ruins of Rome into dramatic, atmospheric visions that captivated Grand Tourists and shaped Neoclassicism.
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