Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi was developed from the study

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Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi was developed from the studyIn a letter written near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 1778) explained to his sister that he had lived away from his native Venice because he could find no patrons there willing to support "the sublimity of my ideas." He resided instead in Rome, where he because internationally famous working as a printmaker, designer, architect, archaeologist, theorist, dealer, and polemicist. While Piranesi's lasting fame is based above all