Luigi Rossini was a great Italian artist of the 19th century. He began working in Bologna, where he studied with Antonio Giuseppe Basoli (1744-1843), and at the same time he took an interest in attending architectural lectures, thanks to which he won a prize in 1813 which led him to Rome. The artistic ambience of Rome was highly influential to him - he was to work with Canova - and he completed several paintings as well as architectural projects. It was this richly stimulating artistic ambience which enabled him to compose his main work in etchings, revising Piranesi's tradition of the depiction of views into his own eighteenth century manner

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