Giovanni-Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) signed all his books as ‘Venetian architect’, although he only carried out one building. The shortage of commissions in Rome in 1740 led him to replace the architect’s tools for the engraver’s burin, generating a large number of images that spread quickly among European artists travelling along the Grand Tour. His mysterious visions of Ancient Rome and his imaginary prisons, still surprising and inspiring nowadays, remind us of the most popular Piranesi...[+]