Chimneypiece: Architrave decorated with a Greek key motif and a circular fireback with figures of the zodiac (Ch. décorée
Chimneypiece: Architrave decorated with a Greek key motif and a circular fireback with figures of the zodiac (Ch. décorée d'une grecque), from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli (Different Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces and all other parts of houses), ca. 1769, Etching, Sheet: 17 11/16 x 21 1/4 in. (45 x 54 cm), Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome), Although Giovanni Battista Piranesi is best known for his capricious, often ruinous landscape compositions, architecture and interior design formed an important part of his theoretic and artistic life’s work
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