He nevertheless always considered himself an architect, and it was in the construction of Rome, present but especially past, that he found his greatest inspiration, as he later wrote:Īlready he was testing the very possibility of accurately rendering his encounters. He also spent a brief period in the studio of master painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) and trained with vedutist Giuseppe Vasi (1710-1782) in the art of etching and engraving. Struggling to find work in Venice, Piranesi moved to Rome in the 1740s, where he worked as a draughtsman for Marco Foscarini, the Venetian ambassador of Pope Benedict XIV.
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There he also learned the craft of stage design, becoming familiar with principles of lighting and how to create dramatic effects through perspective that would come to have such great impact in his work.
Piranesi was likewise destined to become an architect and apprenticed with his uncle in Venice.
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His father was a stonemason and master builder and his mother was the eldest sister of Matteo Lucchesi, a prominent architect and engineer with aristocratic connections. Giovanni Battista Piranesi (4 October 1720 - 9 November 1778) was a Venetian, born in Mogliano Veneto, but it was in Rome that he claimed his place as the greatest printmaker of the eighteenth century.
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