This etching by Piranesi’s close friend Felice Polanzani shows the artist, aged thirty, as a Janus figure—half antique fragment and half modern architect—in his chosen role as the interpreter of the classical past for modern designers.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Felice_Polanzani" class="extiw" title="w:en:Felice Polanzani"><span title="Italian painter (1700-1783)">Felice Polanzani</span></a>
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1750<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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