NEOCLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI BORN Otober 4, 1720; Mogliano Veneto, Italy DIED November 9, 1778; Rome, Italy
Piranesi was a true 18th-century Polimath, he was an architect, an antiquarian, a vedotista, (that is someone who makes views of the city of Rome) an etcher, and a designer, he was also an interior decorator, perhaps the first person who we can called an interior decorador, an art dealer, a theorist, and a critic.
1779 Piranesi