Other classic ancient Egyptian motifs pictured include a grasshopper or locust, a Nile River crocodile, Egyptian hieroglyphics, a monkey, a scarab, an ankh, a pyramid, a lion, sphinxes and numerous other ancient Egyptian design elements.Giovanni Battista Piranesi was an Italian Classical archaeologist, architect, and artist, famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons". Trained in Venice in architecture and engineering, Piranesi was a pioneer in archaeology, and through the wide dissemination of his prints, he became one of the most influential architects, designers, and printmakers of the 18th century. This fascinating architectural display includes elements and iconography of ancient Egyptology including Bast or Bastet the cat goddess, Khonsu the hawk and Apis the bull deity.
Piranesi has influenced writers as diverse as Coleridge, Thomas de Quincey, Aldous Huxley and. Semicircular opening (usually a window) subdivided by two plain mullions into three compartments. to the growth of classical archaeology and to the Neoclassical movement in art. This is a reproduction of a 1769 Egyptian Revival print by the famous Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Giovanni Battista (also Giambattista) Piranesi (4 October 1720 9 November 1778) was an Italian artist famous for his Vedute, etchings of the ruins of Ancient Rome and of the fictitious and atmospheric 'Imaginary Prisons' ( Carceri dInvenzione ). Giovanni Battista Piranesi Italian artist Britannica University Of.
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