| 11336 Piranesi | Discovered 1996 July 14 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory. |
| Giambattista Piranesi (1720-1778), a Venetian architect and etcher who lived and worked in Rome for almost all his life, became with his archaeological works and polemic interventions one of the most famous intellectual figures of eighteenth-century Rome and one of the main inspirers of neoclassicism. |
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| Reference: 20081212/MPCPages.arc | Last Updated: 2008-12-12 |
