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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Name: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Date of birth: 1720
Date of death: 1778
Gender: Male

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Vestibolo d'antico Tempio ... (Vestibule of an ancient temple)

Vestibolo d'antico Tempio ... (Vestibule of an ancient temple)

Foro antico Romano circondato da portici, con logge, alcune delle quali si uniscono al Palazzo Imperiale ed altre alle Carceri (Ancient Roman Forum surrounded by porticoes, with loggias, some of which communicate with the Imperial Palace and others with the prisons ..)

Foro antico Romano circondato da portici, con logge, alcune delle quali si uniscono al Palazzo Imperiale ed altre alle Carceri (Ancient Roman Forum surrounded by porticoes, with loggias, some of which communicate with the Imperial Palace and others with the prisons ..)

Mausoleo antico cretto per le ceneri d'un Imperadore Romano ... (Ancient Mausoleum erected for the ashes of a Roman Emperor)

Mausoleo antico cretto per le ceneri d'un Imperadore Romano ... (Ancient Mausoleum erected for the ashes of a Roman Emperor)

Gruppo di Colonne, che regge due archi d'un gran Cortile ... (Group of columns which support two arches of a great courtyard ...)

Gruppo di Colonne, che regge due archi d'un gran Cortile ... (Group of columns which support two arches of a great courtyard ...)

Ara antica sopra la quale si facevano anticamente i sagrifizi, con altre ruine all' intorno (Antique Altar on which sacrifices were performed in antiquity, surrounded by other ruins)

Ara antica sopra la quale si facevano anticamente i sagrifizi, con altre ruine all' intorno (Antique Altar on which sacrifices were performed in antiquity, surrounded by other ruins)

Tempio antico inventato e disegnato alla maniera di quelli che si fabbricavano in onore della Dea Vesta: quindi vedesi in nmezzo la grand' Ara, sopra della quale conservavasi dalle Vergini Vestali l'inestinguibile fuoco sacro .... (Imaginary ancient temple designed in the style of those built in honour of the Goddess Vesta: in the centre is the great altar on which the Vestal Virgins preserved the inextinguishable sacred fire ...)

Tempio antico inventato e disegnato alla maniera di quelli che si fabbricavano in onore della Dea Vesta: quindi vedesi in nmezzo la grand' Ara, sopra della quale conservavasi dalle Vergini Vestali l'inestinguibile fuoco sacro .... (Imaginary ancient temple designed in the style of those built in honour of the Goddess Vesta: in the centre is the great altar on which the Vestal Virgins preserved the inextinguishable sacred fire ...)

Camera sepolcrale inventata a disegnata conforme al costume, e all' antica magnificenza degl' Imperatori Romani (Imaginary sepulcral chamber designed according to the fashion and ancient magnificence of the Roman Emperors ...)

Camera sepolcrale inventata a disegnata conforme al costume, e all' antica magnificenza degl' Imperatori Romani (Imaginary sepulcral chamber designed according to the fashion and ancient magnificence of the Roman Emperors ...)

Dedicazione a Giovanni Bottari (Dedication to Giovanni Bottari)

Dedicazione a Giovanni Bottari (Dedication to Giovanni Bottari)

Dedicace a' Bottari, encadree des ornements ci-dessus (Dedication to Bottari)

Dedicace a' Bottari, encadree des ornements ci-dessus (Dedication to Bottari)

Iscrizioni che sono nella presente Raccolta e prima nell' Arco di Settimio Severo in Roma ("Inscriptions in the present collection beginning with that of the Arch of Septimius Severus in Rome")

Iscrizioni che sono nella presente Raccolta e prima nell' Arco di Settimio Severo in Roma ("Inscriptions in the present collection beginning with that of the Arch of Septimius Severus in Rome")

Galleria grande di Statue, la cui struttura e con archi e col lume preso dall'alto ... (Large sculpture gallery built on arches and lit from above)

Galleria grande di Statue, la cui struttura e con archi e col lume preso dall'alto ... (Large sculpture gallery built on arches and lit from above)

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