Giovanni Battista Piranesi, also known as Giambattista (Mogliano Veneto, 4 October 1720 - Rome, 9 November 1778), was an engraver, architect and theorist of Italian architecture.
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His engraved tables, marked by dramatic intonation, appear to be marked by an idea of dignity and all-Roman magnificence, expressed through the grandeur and isolation of architectural elements, so as to reach a sublime feeling of grandeur of the ancient past ....
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