Piranesi as Designer
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study for a title page incorporating plan and elevational design for a pulpit, ca. 1744–45

In this brilliant scherzo, or fantasy composition, Piranesi used the trompe l’oeil device of folded material overlapping a plaque. The meticulous plan and elevation for a complex rococo pulpit were a subsequent addition.

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
Chimneypiece Designed for John Hope in Diverse maniere d'adornare...

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Chimneypiece for John Hope

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 Frontispiece, Scroll Surmounted by Crown and Foliage; Corner of Sarcophagus, Sistum, Lantern, Portrait Medallion, Feather, Fasces, etc.

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
diverse maniere..., open to chimneypiece: griffon monopods on the jambs

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
elevation of piranesi’s own funerary candelabrum with putti, from vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi...,

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
imaginary architectural composition with inscription from sallust in osservazioni sopra la lettre de m. mariette, fromparere su l’architettura: della introduzione e del progresso delle belle arti in europa de’ tempi antichi

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
perspective of newdigate candelabrum with cranse, from vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi...,

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
perspective view of the “warwick vase,” from vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi...,

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Pier Table designed for Cardinal Giovanni Battista Rezzonico

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Portrait of Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Pietro Labruzzi
Portrait of Giovanni Battista Piranesi as an Antique Bust

Francesco (Felice) Polanzani
preliminary design for a high altar, s. maria del priorato, rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
preparatory drawing for the etched plate iv of the “carceri d’invenzione”

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

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Roman ionic capitals, plate 20 from della magnificenza ed architettura de’ romani

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
sketch design for part of a table

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

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
the drawbridge (late state), plate vii from the series carceri d’invenzione

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
the drawbridge (state i), plate 7a from the series carceri d’invenzione

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
the imperial mausoleum (mausoleo antico), from prima parte di architetture e prospettive

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
the tomb of nero, from the series grotteschi

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Wine Cooler

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