Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Giovanni Battista Piranesi) - an outstanding Italian figure of the XVIII century, who is known as a talented engraver and etcher, as well as an architect, art critic, collector of antiquities and archaeologist. His multifaceted talent was most clearly manifested in wonderful graphic works dedicated to Rome - a city that the artist admired all his life. He not only described and captured in his drawings, engravings and etchings the preserved and already disappeared monuments of ancient Rome, but also sang their greatness and special beauty. Engravings from 29 parts of his work.