Born in Mogliano Veneto, Piranesi moved to Rome as a young man. He was trained as an architect, but he never built a building. Instead, he built a universe on paper. His genius lay in capriccio —fantastical combinations of real Roman ruins.
: A technical paper analyzing how Piranesi manipulated rules of perspective to create his immersive, maze-like "imaginary prisons". Piranesi between Classical and Sublime : A scholarly article on ResearchGate Piranesi