Yesterday Piranesi was mentioned.
Piranesi was a printmaker I learned a lot from, I had a large print book with all the carceri etchings.
One of my first large etchings was kind of an homage to him.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
(1720 - 1778)

Giovanni Battista (or Giambattista) Piranesi also known as simply Piranesi; 4 October 1720 – 9 November 1778) was an Italian Classical archaeologist, architect, and artist, famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" (Carceri d'invenzione). He was the father of Francesco Piranesi, Laura Piranesi and Pietro Piranesi [it].
Carceri d'invenzione or Imaginary Prisons (there are other translations) is a series of 16 etchings by the Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 14 produced from c. 1745 to 1750, when the first edition of the set was published. All depict enormous subterranean vaults with stairs and mighty machines, in rather extreme versions of the capriccio, a favourite Italian genre of architectural fantasies; the first title page uses the term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Piranesi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carceri_d'invenzione

Le Carceri d'Invenzione, plate III: The Round Tower
1761
Oil on canvas
54 x 41,5 cm.
Princeton University Art Museum
https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/2961