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Place of Birth: Mogliano Veneto, Republic of Venice (present-day Italy)

Date of Birth: October 4, 1720

Place of Death: Rome, Papal States (present-day Italy)

Date of Death: November 9, 1778

Active Country: present-day Italy

Works of Art: 20

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), Ichnographiam Campi Martii Antiquae Urbis ("Ichnographia," or Plan of the Campus Martius of the Ancient City)

Ichnographiam Campi Martii Antiquae Urbis ("Ichnographia," or Plan of the Campus Martius of the Ancient City), 1757

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), Veduta dell' Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo (View of the Flavian Amphitheater, called the Colosseum)

Veduta dell' Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo (View of the Flavian Amphitheater, called the Colosseum), 1776

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), Autre vue interieure des restes du Collège supposé des Anfictions (Another interior view of the remains of the so-called College of the Amphictyons)

Autre vue interieure des restes du Collège supposé des Anfictions (Another interior view of the remains of the so-called College of the Amphictyons), 1778

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), Rovina di uno degli allogiamenti de' Soldati presso ad una delle eminenti fabbriche di Adriano nella sua Villa in Tivoli (Ruins of one of the soldiers’ barracks at Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli)

Rovina di uno degli allogiamenti de' Soldati presso ad una delle eminenti fabbriche di Adriano nella sua Villa in Tivoli (Ruins of one of the soldiers’ barracks at Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli), 1774

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), Veduta del Pantheon d' Agrippa oggi Chiesa di Santa Maria ad Martyres (View of the Pantheon of Agrippa, today the church of S. Maria ad Martyres)

Veduta del Pantheon d' Agrippa oggi Chiesa di Santa Maria ad Martyres (View of the Pantheon of Agrippa, today the church of S. Maria ad Martyres), 1761

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), Veduta del tempio della Sibilla in Tivoli (View of the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli)

Veduta del tempio della Sibilla in Tivoli (View of the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli), 1761

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), Veduta dell' interno dell' Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo (View of the Interior of the Flavian Amphitheater, called the Colosseum)

Veduta dell' interno dell' Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo (View of the Interior of the Flavian Amphitheater, called the Colosseum), 1766

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), Avanzi degl' Aquedotti Neroniani che si volvevano distruggere per la loro vecchiezza, ma per ordine di N’ro. Sig.re Papa Clemento XIV sono restati in piedi

Avanzi degl' Aquedotti Neroniani che si volvevano distruggere per la loro vecchiezza, ma per ordine di N’ro. Sig.re Papa Clemento XIV sono restati in piedi, 1775

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), title Page for Carceri d’Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)

title Page for Carceri d’Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons), 1749–1750

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), title Page for Carceri d’Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)

title Page for Carceri d’Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons), 1749–1750

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Campus Martius Antiquae Urbis [The District of the Campus Martius (literally the “Field of Mars,” a public area in ancient Rome) in the Ancient City], 1762

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), title Page for Le Antichità Romane (Roman Antiquities), Volume II

title Page for Le Antichità Romane (Roman Antiquities), Volume II, 1756

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), Avanzo degli archi Neroniani sul monte Celio ov’era la loro terminazione… (Remains of the Neronian arches on the Caelian Hill at the point of their termination…)

Avanzo degli archi Neroniani sul monte Celio ov’era la loro terminazione… (Remains of the Neronian arches on the Caelian Hill at the point of their termination…), 1756

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), Avanzi Del Tempio del Dio Canopo nella Villa Adriana in Tivoli (Remains of the Temple of the God Canopus at Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli)

Avanzi Del Tempio del Dio Canopo nella Villa Adriana in Tivoli (Remains of the Temple of the God Canopus at Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli), 1768

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), The Well

The Well, 1749–50

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), Un camino e due tavoli da muro, di cui uno riprodotto illusivamente su un foglio (Design for a Chimneypiece and Two Consoles)

Un camino e due tavoli da muro, di cui uno riprodotto illusivamente su un foglio (Design for a Chimneypiece and Two Consoles), 1769

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), Avanzi di un Collegio di Silvano Aureliano a Centocelle fuori della Porta Maggiore (Ruins of the Collegio di Silvano Aureliano at Centocelle, around the Great Door)

Avanzi di un Collegio di Silvano Aureliano a Centocelle fuori della Porta Maggiore (Ruins of the Collegio di Silvano Aureliano at Centocelle, around the Great Door), after 1756

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), untitled (the tomb of Nero)

untitled (the tomb of Nero), 1747

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), Senatus populusque romanus monumenta marmorea... (Marble monuments erected by the Senate and People of Rome)

Senatus populusque romanus monumenta marmorea... (Marble monuments erected by the Senate and People of Rome), 1762

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), Altra Veduta del Tempio della sibilla in Tivoli (Another view of the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli)

Altra Veduta del Tempio della sibilla in Tivoli (Another view of the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli), 1761

Exhibitions: 16

Teaching from Prints: The Legacy of John Talleur

Stephen Goddard, curator

2003–2004

Art Into Art: Inspired Responses

2006–2007

Teaching Gallery: Views of Rome

2007

Empire of Things

Kris Ercums, curator
Kate Meyer, curator

2013–2015

Conflicting Memories

Stephen Goddard, curator
Saralyn Reece Hardy, curator

2003–2004

Conflicting Memories

Stephen Goddard, curator
Saralyn Reece Hardy, curator

2004

1967

Brosseau Center for Learning: Western Art History and other Selections for KU Courses

Rami Zeedan, curator
Sarah Dyer, curator
Marike Janzen, curator
Kate Meyer, curator

2024

Teaching Gallery: Italian Works on Paper

2013

Brosseau Center for Learning: Introduction to Western Art History

2017

Spencer Museum of Art Tenth Anniversary Exhibition (Spencer Museum Celebrates Ten Years of Art)

1988

Friends of the Art Museum Annual Meeting and Purchase Party 2010

2010

Past and Present: The Carceri of G. B. Piranesi

Lisbeth Lurey, curator

2014–2015

Teaching Gallery: 19th Century Photos & Prints

2008

Masterworks on Paper: The Max Kade Gift in Perspective

Stephen Goddard, curator

1993

Recent Acquisitions

2005