Piranesi
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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“And when I was there, they were still finishing up some of the big freeways.… I suddenly thought: ‘My God, this place needs its Piranesi, Los Angeles could have a Piranesi, so here I am!’
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
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
In his notebooks, Piranesi makes a careful record of what he sees.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2021
In the drawings of Piranesi, in the pictures of Rembrandt, one sees this grand language exhibited more truly.
From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Fuller, Arthur B.
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