Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), an Italian draftsman, printmaker, architect, and art theorist, was born on October 4, 1720, in Mogliano Veneto, near Venice. Raised in a family with a deep ...

Piranesi’s powerful rendition of Doric architecture. (Courtesy of Cantor Arts Center) In 1777, Italian printmaker and architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi visited the ancient Greek city of Paestum on ...

The travel postcard is perhaps the most basic of souvenirs. It’s cheap, it’s easy to find, and it captures a scene from the place visited. Although mail occupies an insignificant place in our daily ...

Piranesi is the name (or one name) of the main character, a man who lives in an enormous house filled with statues. The lower chambers flood with tides. Piranesi spends his days writing in his journal ...

Piranesi, who considered himself an architect as well as an artist, is best known for his use of the etching medium to create prints of Rome’s architecture, including the ancient Roman aqueduct system ...

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, View of the Interior of the Basilica, Looking North I (Study for plate V of the Différentes vues de Pesto (ca. 1777-78). (Photo: Courtesy of the Trustees of Sir John ...

When high school graduate Georg Kabierske started his four-week internship at Karlsruhe State Museum in Germany last summer, aged 19, he immediately asked directer Dorit Schäfer if the museum had ...

Henry James’ novels are full of Isabelle Archers and Daisy Millers, America ingénues who hasten to the Old World to drink in the splendors of classical Rome. In the 19th century, when James was ...