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Piranesi and her youngest siblings were under his guardianship as well; within three days of Giovanni Battista's death, Francesco drew up an initial dowry contract for Piranesi's betrothal to carpenter Giuseppe Svezzeman. In May 1779, a final contract was agreed upon and her dowry was used by Svezzeman to open three financially unsuccessful shops in Rome.
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Piranesi's prints are undated, making it uncertain when she produced her prints, and whether she produced them before or after her father's death. However, it is known that some of her prints were created after her father's death, but on a lesser scale. Two prints that fall into this category are the
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Piranesi's prints have been largely neglected by historians as nearly all are reinterpretations of her father's etchings. Labelled as copies, art historians from the 18th century to today have overlooked the unique aspects of
Piranesi's work. In the 1920s, however, the Keeper of Prints and Drawings
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In an era when it was rare for a woman to produce art professionally, Piranesi is a rare example of a female artist creating for a specific and viable market. In addition, Piranesi played a role in managing the family workshop – written sales records and inventories of her father's prints exist in
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November 9, 1778, her father passed away, sending his family into legal and financial turmoil. Though Piranesi was the eldest child, inheritance laws in 18th-century Rome dictated that the workshop was to be inherited by the next male heir, Francesco. Not only was the workshop in Francesco's
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took an interest in
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genre, Piranesi's prints consist of stylized views of Roman architecture and ruins that aim to capture the spirit of the city through landscapes. Vedute and architectural prints were particularly popular among travelers participating in the
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Piranesi is now known to have been alive in 1789, though scholarship previously thought her to have died by 1785. She was certainly dead by 1799, when the remaining
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Minor, Heather Hyde; Pinto, John (2016). "'Marcher sur les traces de son père': the
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