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Luigi
Rossini was a great Italian artist of the 19th century. He began working
in Bologna, where he studied with Antonio Giuseppe Basoli (1744-1843), and
at the same time he took an interest in attending architectural lectures,
thanks to which he won a prize in 1813 which led him to Rome. The artistic
ambience of Rome was highly influential to him - he was to work with
Canova - and he completed several paintings as well as architectural
projects. It was this richly stimulating artistic ambience which enabled
him to compose his main work in etchings, revising Piranesi's tradition of
the depiction of views into his own eighteenth century manner.
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