Piranesi
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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If the scale suggests Piranesi, its reductive geometry is that of Minimalist sculpture, like something that Donald Judd might have made.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
And the 2021 winner is Susanna Clarke, with her second novel "Piranesi."
From Salon • Sep. 18, 2021
Piranesi, a mystery about a man living alone in a labyrinthine house, beat five other books to the £30,000 prize.
From BBC • Sep. 8, 2021
It is a revelatory and moving performance in which Ejiofor’s Piranesi is both the explorer and the territory explored.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2021
It is his etching, not his labour as an architect, that will make Piranesi immortal.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by Huneker, James
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