The Octagonal Room in the Small Baths at the Villa of Hadrian (Tivoli)., ca. 1777, Red chalk over black chalk or charcoal with partly ruled construction; sheet glued onto secondary paper support, 15 1/2 x 21 3/4in. (39.4 x 55.3cm), Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome), The Venetian Piranesi was active as a draftsman, designer, architect, archaeologist, and theorist, but it is as a printmaker that he achieved his most enduring fame. His technically brilliant and exceedingly influential etchings reflect his antiquarian interests and offered audiences across Europe a rich visual record, at once archaeological and poetic, of the glories of ancient Rome
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Octagonal Room, Small Baths, Villa, Hadrian, Tivoli, ca, 1777, Red chalk, black, charcoal, partly ruled construction, sheet glued, secondary paper support, 15 1/2 x 21 3/4in, 39.4 55.3cm, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, Mogliano Veneto, 1720–1778, Rome, Venetian, Piranesi, active, draftsman, designer, architect, archaeologist, theorist, printmaker, achieved, enduring fame, technically brilliant, exceedingly influential, etchings, reflect, antiquarian interests, offered audiences, across, Europe, rich visual, record, archaeological, poetic, glories, ancient Rome
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