Giovanni Battista Piranesi
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Born in the Venetian Republic in 1720, Prianesi worked largely in Rome and produced many of the images through which European notions of ancient Rome were formed, including his Antiquities of Rome 1748. His appeal to the Gothic imagination came through his production of imaginary prison scenes and this work is referenced by Thomas De Quincey in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1820).
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