Piranesi as Designer
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Architectural Fantasy with Colossal Arcaded Façade Overlooking a Piazza with Monuments, n.d.

This imaginative composition from Piranesi’s early years in Rome anticipated his work in the Prima parte di Architetture e Prospettive (1743). Using dramatic contrasts in scale and perspective, Piranesi situated naval monuments and statues, including the famous Dioscuri, the horse tamers, before a fanciful building with a domed rotunda.

Architectural Fantasy with Colossal Arcaded Façade Overlooking a Piazza with Monuments

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Architectural Fantasy with Monumental Portico before a Palace

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
autograph letter from piranesi to charles townley, with drawing of the warwick vase accompanied by dimensions

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
design for a clock in the form of a pineapple

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Design for a Commode

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Design for a Fountain

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
design for a side table

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Design for a Wall Monument with Papal and Ducal Crowns (S. Giovanni in Laterano)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
design for a wall panel in the form of a rococo shield with sconces to either side

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
design for a wall panel in the rococo style

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
design for a “bissona,” or festival gondola

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Design for an Overdoor Decoration with Trophies in the Lunette and Winged Serpents and Dolphins in Spandrels for Main Salon of Villa Albani, Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Design for Decorative Relief Panel below Central Stela of South Wall of the Piazzale de’ Cavalieri di Malta, Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
design for decorative relief panel on the right-hand stela of the south wall, piazzale de’ cavalieri di malta, rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Design for the Central Relief Panel of the Vault, S. Maria del Priorato, Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Design for the lower part of the high altar, S. Maria del Priorato

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
designs for two commodes

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
preliminary design for a high altar, s. maria del priorato, rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Preparatory drawing for the high altar of S. Maria del Priorato, Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
sheet of sketch designs for bodywork of coaches

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
sheet of sketches showing temples, tombs, sarcophagi, ground plan, vases, and a circus, after fischer von erlach’s“entwurff einer historischen architektur,”

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
sketch design for a monumental candelabrum

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
sketch design for chimneypiece with confronted elephant heads

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
study for a title page incorporating plan and elevational design for a pulpit

Giovanni Battista Piranesi