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Piranesi – two Italian engraver: 1) P. Giambattista (1720 – 1778) received his artistic education in Rome and worked there first painting scenery under Valeriani, then engraved under the direction of Wazee. Not expressed in this art great success, he returned to his hometown, Venice, and here trying his hand in the construction business, but found no support for it and then moved to Rome, where nagraviroval a series of pages depicting amputees and patients. After one more unsuccessful trips to their homeland, is seriously engaged prints and, finally, achieved significant excellence in the art, reproducing species and architectural monuments of Rome and southern Italy. Engravings AP differ splendid chiaroscuro, bold and effective technique. They mostly form the anthology, entitled: "Della maguificenza ed architettura dei Romani" (1760), "Campus Martius antiquae Urbis" (1762, 2 vols), "Antichita romane" (1766 – 84, 4 t), Antichita della Magna Grecia "and" Antichita di Pompei "(2 vols). The complete collection of engravings published in the PA in 1836 Dido. 2), Francesco Piranesi (1756 – 1810), son and disciple of the previous one, with his brother, Pietro , contained "some time in the Paris art school and terra-cotta factory, and speculated the works of his father. From his engravings known portrait of his father's title-page of his works (with a picture Kadesh), illumination Paulinskoy Chapel "and" Sitting Jupiter Capitoline Museum (with Fig. Pirola).