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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

( 1720 - 1778 )

Born in: Mogliano Veneto - Italy

Main Artcraft: Architecture

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G.B. PIRANESI

Biography

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Added on: 2006-12-20

Piranesi was born in Mogliano Veneto in 1720. He starts to study as an architect in 1735 under Matteo Lucchesi, his uncle, and continues with Giovanni Antonio Scalfarotto. Then he decides to work in Venice. Thanks to his activity as a sketcher he knows the importance of the decorative art. From 1740 he was in Rome with Marco Foscarini, the Venetian envoy to the Vatican and he resides in the Palazzo Venezia.


Participations

Event from to
La Roma di Piranesi. La cittā del Settecento nelle2006-11-162007-02-25

ArtPlaces

PlaceLocation
Museo del CorsoRoma (IT)
 

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