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  • Chapter 8 - Laura Piranesi incise

  • from Part II - Spaces of Production
  • Edited by Cristina S. Martinez, University of Ottawa, Cynthia E. Roman, Yale University
  • Book:
    Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century
    Published online:
    14 March 2024
    Print publication:
    21 March 2024, pp 123-136
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    Today, only twenty signed etchings by Laura Piranesi, daughter of the famous printmaker Giovanni Battista, are known. Her work has never been assessed independently from that produced by her father and brother. Documents newly discovered in Roman archives bring to light fresh biographical details and important milestones including her education in her father’s studio making vedute (cityscapes or vistas), a genre much appreciated by foreign tourists. In this chapter, her prints held in museum collections are, for the first time, catalogued separately from those of her family members. Showing great ability as an etcher, her small views of ancient and modern Roman monuments are in keeping with the subjects of larger views by her father; conversely, her picturesque style is very different.