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

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]
Diverse Maniere d'Adornare I Cammini
1769, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York

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]
Prima Parte di Architture e Prospective
1743, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York

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]
Triumphal Arch from the series Grotteschi
1750, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York