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Francesco Piranesi (Italian pronunciation: [franˈtʃesko piraˈneːzi;-eːsi]; 1758/59 – 23 January 1810) was an Italian engraver, etcher and architect. He was the son of the more famous Giovanni Battista Piranesi and continued his series of engravings representing monuments and ancient temples.
Francesco Piranesi (Italian, Rome 1758–1810 Paris) ca. 1750–80 Convention entre la Republique Française et les États-Unis d'Amerique, signée à Mortefontaine le onze Vendemaire, An 9, 3 Octobre, 1800 [Convention between the French Republic and the United States]
Francesco Piranesi was an Italian engraver, etcher and architect. He was the son of the more famous Giovanni Battista Piranesi and continued his series of engravings representing monuments and ancient temples. He worked for a long period in France, where he lived during the French Revolution.
In the early 1770s, when Piranesi traveled to Pompeii for the first time in the company of his son Francesco, international tourism had long since discovered the town near Mount Vesuvius. Excavated there just a few years earlier had been a Temple of Isis constructed during the 2nd century BCE for an Egyptian mystery cult.
Francesco Piranesi (Italian, Rome 1758–1810 Paris) ca. 1750–80 Convention entre la Republique Française et les États-Unis d'Amerique, signée à Mortefontaine le onze Vendemaire, An 9, 3 Octobre, 1800 [Convention between the French Republic and the United States]
Giovanni Battista Piranesi Remains of the Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli, from Views of Rome, 1763, published 1800–07 Interior view of the Basilica of St. Peter’s in the Vatican, near the Tribune, from Views of Rome, 1773
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