Engraving Of Giovanni Piranesi
Engraving Of Giovanni Battista Piranesi c1779 by Italian Engraver Francesco Piranesi (1758-9 – 1810); noted engraver and the son of Giovanni Battista Piranesi.
This eye catching engraving of Giovanni Battista Piranesi was created by his son Francesco Piranesi; and depicts the bust of his fathers head in an inscribed circle stone rectangular polygon that is ornately embellished with flowers, vines, ribbons, awards and a large wine vase on the side..
The scene has an Architectural Capriccio look to it and on the lower left we can see a top view of two dimensional architectural plan of a very large structure; which may be an open air theater with surrounding buildings and a port.
In front of the bust structure are what appear to be ancient Roman armor and two shields that have the images of comedy and tragedy.
On the stone that bears Giovanni bust are the words at the top EQVES-IO-BAPT-PIRANESIVS; and on the bottom the words, VIX-ANN-LIIX OB-VIDNOVEMB-CIC(reversed)IC(reversed)CCLXXIIX.
Engraving Of Giovanni Piranesi is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image.
The following information is derived from Wikipedia.org
Francesco was the eldest son of Giovanni Battista Piranesi and his wife, Angela Pasquini in Rome on 1758 or 1759.
He and his sister Laura (1754 – 1789), who was also a noted engraver were both instructed in the art of engraving by their father; and by 1775 was engraving his own works and helping his father with his works.
He later study engraving under Italian Engraver Giovanni Volpato (1735 – 1803), landscape painting under the German Painters Jacob Philipp Hackert (1737 – 1807) and his younger brother Georg (1755 – 1805); then completed his studies in Architecture with French Architect Pierre-Adrien Pâris (1745 – 1819).
In the early 1700s; 1770 and 1778 to be exact Francesco accompanied his father to the ancient ruins of Paestum an ancient Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea in Magna Graecia (Southern Italy), Pompei an ancient city Naples Italy, and Ercolano a town in the city of Naples; as part of a group of engravers that were collaborating with engraver Benedetto Mori (1785 – 1820) and Architect Augusto Rosa.
His father created a series of drawings that focused on Paestum, which he then completed; and soon after their second trip when his father passed away he acquired his fathers publishing house, where upon he would print later editions of his fathers work.
