File:Antichina piranese.jpg

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Summary

Artist



Alternative names	Giambattista Piranesi
Description	Italian printmaker and architect
Date of birth/death	4 October 1720	9 November 1778
Location of birth/death	Mogliano Veneto	Rome
Work location	Rome
Authority control	WorldCat

Title

"Appian Way", Piranesi's frontispiece for "La antichità romane", T. II

Date

1756

Medium

etching

Notes

1891

Source/Photographer

Le antichità Romane. Tomo II, tav. II. // Opere di Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Francesco Piranesi e d'altri. Firmin Didot Freres, Paris, 1835-1839. Tomo 2.
Scans from www.coe.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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