An architect and an antiquarian whose work includes the rebuilding of the church of S. Maria  Aventina in Rome, in 1748 he set out to produce the definitive set of engravings of ancient Roman ruins.  
An architect and an antiquarian whose work includes the rebuilding of the church of S. Maria  Aventina in Rome, in 1748 he set out to produce the definitive set of engravings of ancient Roman ruins.  Once he had used up this subject, he began turning out engravings of nonexistent buildings, the results of  which had  a significant influence on both the romantics and the expressionists. FTP, name this artist whose  _Imaginary Prisons_ depict hell by way of neoclassical interior design.
An architect and an antiquarian whose work includes the rebuilding of the church of S. Maria  Aventina in Rome, in 1748 he set out to produce the definitive set of engravings of ancient Roman ruins.  
Giovanni {Piranesi}