Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) is an expert in erosion printmaking and an archaeologist and architect. He painted ancient and modern buildings for the purpose of selling paintings to tourists or making illustrations in guide books. These paintings express vivid and highly subjective colors and Roman architectural images.


Giovanni Battista Piranesi shaped the image of the ancient Roman city based on archaeological findings and personal imagination. Unlike general architectural paintings, these paintings are not archeological restoration pictures, but incorporate many ideas for future architecture. Stimulated by Giovanni Battista Piranesi's paintings, anyone who visits the ruins in Rome will find that the buildings in reality are much smaller than those in his paintings. Giovanni Battista Piranesi expressed his view on architecture: the combination of emotion and reason. As a result, he was actually at the forefront of the Romantic movement. At that time, the works of European architects were all influenced by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, which was also the first time in history that a painter led the architectural trend.


Under the influence of the painter Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the architects at that time achieved striking and inspiring visual effects through new and old excellent designs in their works. The term "picturesque" has been adopted as a building standard, which adds "change" to the post-Paratyan conventions. Giovanni Battista Piranesi's influence on architecture is also reflected in the architecture The interest in light and shadow in the design, the exaggeration of scale and the pursuit of historical sense of architecture.




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The Prisons

Creator: Piranesi Giovanni Battista Piranesi,

Year of work: unknown,

Image size: 449x338px,

Style: Neoclassical.



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The Prisons

Creator: Piranesi Giovanni Battista Piranesi,

Year of work: unknown,

Image size: 648x868px,

Style: Neoclassical.



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Vedute di Roma

Creator: Piranesi Giovanni Battista Piranesi,

Year of work: unknown,

Image size: 3911x2936px,

Style: Neoclassical.



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View the remains of the ancient city of Paestum

Creator: Piranesi Giovanni Battista Piranesi,

Year of work: unknown,

Image size: 1500x1111px,

Style: Neoclassical.



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The Prisons

Creator: Piranesi Giovanni Battista Piranesi,

Year of work: unknown,

Image size: 1535x1170px,

Style: Neoclassical.



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The Prisons (plate VI)

Creator: Piranesi Giovanni Battista Piranesi,

Year of work: unknown,

Image size: 1528x1168px,

Style: Neoclassical.



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Vedute di Roma

Creator: Piranesi Giovanni Battista Piranesi,

Year of work: unknown,

Image size: 3911x2607px,

Style: Neoclassical.



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Vedute di Roma

Creator: Piranesi Giovanni Battista Piranesi,

Year of work: unknown,

Image size: 3942x3011px,

Style: Neoclassical.



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The Prisons (plate V)

Creator: Piranesi Giovanni Battista Piranesi,

Year of work: unknown,

Image size: 1409x1963px,

Style: Neoclassical.



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Vedute di Roma

Creator: Piranesi Giovanni Battista Piranesi,

Year of work: unknown,

Image size: 3911x2625px,

Style: Neoclassical.



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Zabaglia caricature of Nicholas, the Reverend Fabric of St. Engineer Peter

Creator: Piranesi Giovanni Battista Piranesi,

Year of work: unknown,

Image size: 1038x1500px,

Style: Neoclassical.



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Vedute di Roma

Creator: Piranesi Giovanni Battista Piranesi,

Year of work: unknown,

Image size: 3911x2700px,

Style: Neoclassical.



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Self-Portrait

Creator: Piranesi Giovanni Battista Piranesi,

Year of work: unknown,

Image size: 1133x1500px,

Style: Neoclassical.



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Vedute di Roma

Creator: Piranesi Giovanni Battista Piranesi,

Year of work: unknown,

Image size: 3942x2564px,

Style: Neoclassical.



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The Prisons (plate IV)

Creator: Piranesi Giovanni Battista Piranesi,

Year of work: unknown,

Image size: 764x1000px,

Style: Neoclassical.



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Vedute di Roma

Creator: Piranesi Giovanni Battista Piranesi,

Year of work: unknown,

Image size: 3881x2489px,

Style: Neoclassical.



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Vista of the prospectus of the Temple of Vesta in Tivoli

Creator: Piranesi Giovanni Battista Piranesi,

Year of work: unknown,

Image size: 1126x1500px,

Style: Neoclassical.



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Villa Panfili

Creator: Piranesi Giovanni Battista Piranesi,

Year of work: unknown,

Image size: 1500x1021px,

Style: Neoclassical.