Asteroids named after people called Giambattista

(11336) Piranesi

Giambattista Piranesi (1720-1778), a Venetian architect and etcher who lived and worked in Rome for almost all his life, became with his archaeological works and polemic interventions one of the most famous intellectual figures of eighteenth-century Rome and one of the main inspirers of neoclassicism.Discovered 14 July 1996 by E. W. Elst, La Silla