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Piranesi, Giambattista
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or Giovanni Battista
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pronunciation:
[piranayzee]
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| Architect and copper-engraver of Roman antiquities, born in Mestre, near Venice, NE Italy. He went to Rome in 1740 as a draftsman for the Venetian ambassador, and settled there permanently in 1745. He studied with the leading printmakers and developed his own techniques, producing innumerable etchings of the city both in ancient times and in his own day. |
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