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Piranesi. The Complete Etchings (English, French, German, Hardcover)
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Piranesi. The Complete Etchings (English, French, German, Hardcover)
Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
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The most famous 18th-century copper engraver, Giovanni Battista
Piranesi (1720-1778) made his name with etchings of ancient Rome.
His startling, chiaroscuro images imbued the city's archaeological
ruins with drama and romance and became favorite souvenirs for the
Grand Tourists who traveled Italy in pursuit of classical culture
and education. Today, Piranesi is renowned not just for shaping the
European imagination of Rome, but also for his elaborate series of
fanciful prisons, Carceri, which have influenced generations of
creatives since, from the Surrealists to Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, and Franz Kafka. Loosely based
on contemporary stage sets rather than the actual dingy dungeons of
Piranesi's day, these intricate images defy architectural reality
to play instead with perspective, lighting, and scale. Staircases
exist on two planes simultaneously; vast, vaulted ceilings seem to
soar up to the heavens; interior and exterior distinctions
collapse. With a low viewpoint and small, fragile figures, the
prison scenes become monstrous megacities of incarceration,
celebrated to this day as masterworks of existentialist drama.
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