Giovanni Battista (also Giambattista) Piranesi (4 October 1729 - 9 November 1778) was an Italian artist famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" ("Carceri d'Invenzione"). Wikipedia
...Giovanni Battista Piranesi & Vik Muniz Prisons of the Imagination images from the exhibition (click here to return to the Piranesi/Muniz: Prisons of the Imagination text ... www7.nationalacademies.org/arts/Piranesi_Muniz_Images.html
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Opere contains 940 etchings created by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), a famous Italian architect and etcher, 269 etchings by his son, Francesco Piranesi (1758-1810), and 231 works by other artists. www.coe.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp:8080/e_piranesi.html
Whatever is to become of poor Piranesi ? You suppose, at least, that his labours must in some way terminate here. www.oldandsold.com/articles19/art-16.shtml