ly in firm, vigorouslines. His views of Dresden are genuine masterpieces, notonly for their topographical correctness and their cleverrendering of architecture, but also for their reflection of 236 ENGRAVING IN ITALY local colour and atmosphere. It is a remarkable fact thatItaly produced at the… … Fig. no. Antonio Canale (Canaletto): View in Venice (detail). his son, Francesco (born at Rome 1748, died at Paris1810). The elder Piranesi, originally trained as an archi-tect, found his milieu in the picturing of ancient Romanbuildings and ruins. In his certainty and precision of linehe is akin…
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