Ceen on the maps. Today Giuseppe Vasi is no longer considered Piranesi's defeated rival, but an artist with his own personality and technique. Though far from being a revolutionary, he gave a significant contribution to the Roman school of engraving applied to the "veduta", with a role quite similar to Giovanni Panini's in painting. Works (selected) Selected modern bibliography L. Scalabroni, Giuseppe Vasi, Rome, Multigrafica, 1981 P. Coen, Le Magnificenze di Roma di Giuseppe Vasi, Rome, Newton and Compton, 1996, II ed. 2006 P. Coen, Arte, cultura e mercato in una bottega romana del XVIII secolo: l'impresa calcografica di Giuseppe e Mariano Vasi, fra continuità e rinnovamento", in "Bollettino d'arte", n. 115, 2001 Imago Urbis: Giuseppe Vasi's Grand Tour of Rome, University of Oregon, 2008 James G. Harper & James T. Tice, Giuseppe Vasi's Rome: Lasting Impressions from the Age of the Grand Tour, exh. cat., Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art & the Princeton University Art Museum 2010 (distributed by the University of Delaware Press), 2010 External links Baroque Rome in the etchings of Gudi Vasi Resource offering high-res images University of Oregon's Imago Urbis: Giuseppe Vasi’s Grand Tour of Rome 1710 births 1782 deaths People from Corleone Italian engravers Artists from the Province of Palermo Landscape artists Italian vedutisti