Francesco Piranesi

Francesco Piranesi (* 1756 (or 1758) in Rome; ? † January 23, 1810 in Paris ) was an Italian engraver and architect.

Francesco Piranesi was the son of the engraver, archaeologist and architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Like his father, he created etchings of monuments in the city of Rome, where he, like his father laid a special emphasis on the ancient art and architectural works, which included, for example, the Baths of Diocletian. He drew in 1785 the first commercially available plan of Pompeii, which was launched in two more revisions, until 1793. In addition, he produced images of different architectural monuments of Pompeii, like the tomb of the priestess Mamia or the Temple of Isis at. In 1798 he went to France. His siblings Laura and Pietro Piranesi Piranesi were also successful artists.

Publications

• Differentes vues de quelques restes de trois grande Edifices qui substitent encore dans le ily V de l' ancienne ville de pesto autrement posidonia que est dans la situee Lucanie. Rome in 1778.
• Raccolta de ' Tempj Antichi, prima parte, che comprende i tempj di Vesta madre, ossia della terra, e della Sibilla, ambedue in Tivoli, e dell'Onore, e della Virtù fuori di Porta Capena. Rome in 1780.
• Il Teatro d' Ercolano. Rome 1783.
• Monumenti degli Scipioni. Rome in 1785.
• Choix of meilleurs statues antiques. In 1786.
• Raccolta de ' Tempj Antichi, seconda parte, che contiene il celebre Panteon Rome 1790.
• Nicolas Xavier Willemin: Choix de costumes civils and Military of peuples de l' antiquité, leurs Instrumens de musique, leurs meubles et les leurs maisons de décorations intérieures, d' apres les Monumens antiques, avec un texte tiré of auteurs anciens. Part 1 Paris 1798 Part 2 Paris 1802.
• Antiques de la Grande Grèce, aujourd'hui royaume de Naples. Paris, 1807.