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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

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Fan account of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, an Italian artist famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons". 1720-1778 Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 13h
Villa d'Este-Tivoli collections.artsmia.org/art/55258
Villa d'Este-Tivoli
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 15h
Remains of a covered portico, or a cryptoporticus, in a villa of Domitian, five miles outside Rome on the Frascati road, from Views of Rome www.artic.edu/artworks/48118
The Charles Deering Collection
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 17h
Vedute di Roma www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
Vedute di Roma
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 20h
The Sawhorse, plate 12 from Imaginary Prisons www.artic.edu/artworks/7374
The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 22h
View of the Piazza della Rotonda, from Views of Rome www.artic.edu/artworks/53256
Gift of H. D. Isenberg
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Grand Piazza collections.artsmia.org/art/52624
Plate 4 from Carceri d'Invenzione
Traces of Piranesi’s abandoned first draft—faint, intermittent straight lines that crisscross the background— reveal his improvisational working method. Using printing plates as sketch pads, torturing them with corrosive acids, and radically reworking them, Piranesi fully exploited the liberties afforded by etching. He ranks among the select company of artists—Rembrandt is another—who have done the same.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Two fireplaces superimposed with the support 4 in the chariot race in the circus, the inf with 2 swans that drink in a vase www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
Two fireplaces superimposed with the support 4 in the chariot race in the circus, the inf with 2 swans that drink in a vase
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
View of main facade of the Antonine column, in six tables www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
View of main facade of the Antonine column, in six tables
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Following the above table, with a special section www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
Following the above table, with a special section
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Egyptian Obelisk. This was erected by Pope Sixtus V in the Piazza of St. John Lateran, from Views of Rome www.artic.edu/artworks/64513
Clarence Buckingham Collection
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Roman antiquities, t. 3, Plate XXI. Plan of the burial chambers of `freedmen and servants of the family of Augustus,... www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
The Roman antiquities, t. 3, Plate XXI. Plan of the burial chambers of `freedmen and servants of the family of Augustus, situated on the Appian Way a mile from the Port of St. Sebastiano.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sheet of Sketches: Standing Man with Raised Arm, Cherubim www.artic.edu/artworks/113521
Gift of Tiffany and Margaret Blake
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
View of the Villa Este in Tivoli www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
View of the Villa Este in Tivoli
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tempio di Giove Tonante clevelandart.org/art/1921.1156
Tempio di Giove Tonante
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Elevation and plan of a temple www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
Elevation and plan of a temple
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Reconstruction of the Temple of Isis www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
Reconstruction of the Temple of Isis
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Two fireplaces overlapping: the tragic masks with 3 inf Joined torches, with the support 4 caryatids sorreggenti bucranes www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
Two fireplaces overlapping: the tragic masks with 3 inf Joined torches, with the support 4 caryatids sorreggenti bucranes
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Round Tower, plate III from `Carceri d`Invenzione` www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
The Round Tower, plate III from `Carceri d`Invenzione`
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fourth side of the pedestal of the same column www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
Fourth side of the pedestal of the same column
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
View the remains of factories on the second floor of the Baths of Titus www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
View the remains of factories on the second floor of the Baths of Titus
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trophies of the Dacians, Sarmatians and other peoples of the allies in the band and carved into the pedestal of Trajan column www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
Trophies of the Dacians, Sarmatians and other peoples of the allies in the band and carved into the pedestal of Trajan column
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tripod with Sphinxes, found at Herculaneum (inc. in outline) www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
Tripod with Sphinxes, found at Herculaneum (inc. in outline)
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Grand Piazza www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
The Grand Piazza
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dedicatory letter in italics italics, dated July 20, 1748 www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
Dedicatory letter in italics italics, dated July 20, 1748
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Plan of the existing factories in the Villa Adriana, with a dedication to St. M Stanislaus Augustus, King of Poland www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
Plan of the existing factories in the Villa Adriana, with a dedication to St. M Stanislaus Augustus, King of Poland
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Genius of the races www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
Genius of the races
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Roman antiquities, t. 1, Plate XII. Aqua Alsietina. www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
The Roman antiquities, t. 1, Plate XII. Aqua Alsietina.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Another view of the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
Another view of the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Roman antiquities, t. 2, Plate XXXVII. Plan and elevation of a tomb located on the ancient Via Appia near the Vineyard... www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
The Roman antiquities, t. 2, Plate XXXVII. Plan and elevation of a tomb located on the ancient Via Appia near the Vineyard Buonamici.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Roman antiquities, t. 4, Plate XIX. Plan, elevation and details of construction of the Bridge of Four Heads. www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
The Roman antiquities, t. 4, Plate XIX. Plan, elevation and details of construction of the Bridge of Four Heads.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Roman antiquities, t. 2, Plate V www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
The Roman antiquities, t. 2, Plate V
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
View of the Tomb of Piso Licinianus of the ancient Appian Way, beyond the waterworks tower half way Albano www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
View of the Tomb of Piso Licinianus of the ancient Appian Way, beyond the waterworks tower half way Albano
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cupid and Psyche www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
Cupid and Psyche
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Lion Bas-Reliefs, plate 5 from Imaginary Prisons www.artic.edu/artworks/7353
The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
View of main facade of the Trajan Column, six boards together www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
View of main facade of the Trajan Column, six boards together
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Elmo and the bronze gladiator www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
Elmo and the bronze gladiator
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
S. Maria Maggiore. Interior. www.harvardartmuseums.org/collectio…
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Permanent transfer from the Fine Arts Library, Harvard University, Gift of Thomas Palmer, Esq., of Boston, 1772
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Diana bating www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
Diana bating
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Another interior view of the Villa of Maecenas, Tivoli, from Views of Rome www.artic.edu/artworks/48071
The Charles Deering Collection
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ancient altar, with other ruins www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
Ancient altar, with other ruins
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Roman antiquities, t. 3, Plate XVI. Plan and section of the Mausoleum of S. Emperor Constantine`s mother Helena ta, on the... www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
The Roman antiquities, t. 3, Plate XVI. Plan and section of the Mausoleum of S. Emperor Constantine`s mother Helena ta, on the Via Labicana.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Several capitals and a frieze of Roman Villas www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
Several capitals and a frieze of Roman Villas
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Vedute di Roma www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
Vedute di Roma
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A table on the wall with two Satyrs, a pndola, two watches, two vases, candlesticks wall and table ornaments www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
A table on the wall with two Satyrs, a pndola, two watches, two vases, candlesticks wall and table ornaments
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Two Bacchantes dancing www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
Two Bacchantes dancing
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ruins of one of the chambers` soldiers at one of the leading factories in Hadrian`s Villa in Tivoli His www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
Ruins of one of the chambers` soldiers at one of the leading factories in Hadrian`s Villa in Tivoli His
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Table text: Following the inscriptions referred to in the previous plate and index tables contained in the work www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
Table text: Following the inscriptions referred to in the previous plate and index tables contained in the work
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Villa Panfili www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
Villa Panfili
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A capital and a base (inc F Piranesi) www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battist…
A capital and a base (inc F Piranesi)
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Arch of Septimius Severus. 1. Temple of Concord. 2. Ascent to the Capitoline Hill, plate 13 from Some Views of Triumphal Arches and other Monuments www.artic.edu/artworks/131473
Gift of Dr. Martin Gecht
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