Giovanni Battista Piranesi was an Italian Classical archaeologist, architect, and artist, famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons". He was the father of Francesco Piranesi and Laura Piranesi.
The Roman antiquities, t. 2, Plate XVI. Inscriptions and fragments of the burial chambers of the Family Arrunzia (figures carved from Barbault).. (1756)