Works by: Giovanni Battista Piranesi [Italian, 1720 – 1778]

 

Giovanni Battista Piranesi [Italian, 1720 – 1778]
Altar, Santa Maria del Priorato
1764-1766, Rome

 

Giovanni Battista Piranesi [Italian, 1720 – 1778]
The Capitoline Hill with Steps to S. Maria Aracoeli
c. 1751, RIBA Library, London

   

Giovanni Battista Piranesi [Italian, 1720 – 1778]
Diagonal View of Two Colonnaded Courtyards
after 1740, British Museum, London

 

Giovanni Battista Piranesi [Italian, 1720 – 1778]
Diverse Maniere d'Adornare I Cammini
1769, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York

       

Giovanni Battista Piranesi [Italian, 1720 – 1778]
A Facade with Bizarre Ornaments
c. 1769, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

 

Giovanni Battista Piranesi [Italian, 1720 – 1778]
Imaginary Prison from the Carceri
c. 1760, Courtauld Gallery, London

 

Giovanni Battista Piranesi [Italian, 1720 – 1778]
Lion Bas-Relief, from the series Carceri d'Invenzione
1761, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco

 

Giovanni Battista Piranesi [Italian, 1720 – 1778]
Palazzo Barberini
c. 1750

 

Giovanni Battista Piranesi [Italian, 1720 – 1778]
Pantheon
1756, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin

 

Giovanni Battista Piranesi [Italian, 1720 – 1778]
The Portico of the Pantheon
c. 1750-1765, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

 

Giovanni Battista Piranesi [Italian, 1720 – 1778]
Preparatory Study for Parere su l'architettura
1765, Kunstbibliothek Graphische Sammlung, Berlin

 

Giovanni Battista Piranesi [Italian, 1720 – 1778]
Prima Parte di Architture e Prospective
1743, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York

   

Giovanni Battista Piranesi [Italian, 1720 – 1778]
Santa Maria del Priorato
1764-1768, Rome

 

Giovanni Battista Piranesi [Italian, 1720 – 1778]
Study of a Kneeling Man
c. 1760-1765, private collection

 

Giovanni Battista Piranesi [Italian, 1720 – 1778]
Temple of Neptune
1778, Courtauld Gallery, London

 

Giovanni Battista Piranesi [Italian, 1720 – 1778]
Title Page for the First Edition of the Carceri
1750, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

 

Giovanni Battista Piranesi [Italian, 1720 – 1778]
The Tomb of Nero, from the series Grotteschi
1750, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York

 

Giovanni Battista Piranesi [Italian, 1720 – 1778]
Tomb of the Scipios, from Antichita Romane II
1756, British Library, London

 

Giovanni Battista Piranesi [Italian, 1720 – 1778]
Tomb of Theodoric at Ravenna
after 1740, Courtauld Gallery, London

 

Giovanni Battista Piranesi [Italian, 1720 – 1778]
Triumphal Arch from the series Grotteschi
1750, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York