Chimneypiece: Affronted griffons on the lintel and candelabra on the jambs (Ch. accompagnée de son plan et décorée d'une frise de griffons), from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi...(Different Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces and all other parts of houses), ca. 1769, Etching, Sheet: 16 1/8 x 21 7/16 in. (41 x 54.5 cm), Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome), Although Giovanni Battista Piranesi is best known for his capricious, often ruinous landscape compositions, architecture and interior design formed an important part of his theoretic and artistic life’s work
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