Francesco Piranesi - Zeer grote ets, ingelijst

Zeer grote ets van waarschijnlijk Francesco Piranesi (1758-1810) in mooie lijst.

Afmetingen: 112cm x 82cm (incl. lijst), 95cm x 64cm (binnen passepartout)

Bij aankoop vanwege de grootte en kwetsbaarheid alleen af te halen.  Eventueel kan het werk in overleg worden bezorgd.

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Francesco Piranesi was born in Rome, the eldest son of Giovan Battista Piranesi and his wife, Angela Pasquini. He was instructed in engraving by his father, together with his older sister Laura (1755-1785), also a noted engraver by the time of her early death. He was both engraving his own works of art and assisting his father's work by 1775. He then started to study with other experts: engraving with Giovanni Volpato, landscape painting under the German Jacob Philipp Hackert and his brother, Georg, and architecture under Pierre-Adrien Pâris

Piranesi accompanied his father on two trips to the ancient Roman ruins in Pompei, Paestum and Ercolano, first in 1770, and again in 1778. In this he was part of a group of engravers which collaborated with Benedetto Mori and the architect Augusto Rosa, considered the inventor of felloplastica, the art of constructing scale models of ancient monuments in cork. Giovanni Battista created a series of preparatory drawings about Paestum, which were completed by Francesco. Upon his father's death, shortly after the second trip, Francesco acquired his father's publishing house and was responsible for printing most of the later editions of his prints.