![]() ![]() This site uses Google Analytics to collect information about the use of users of its website. How do we use cookies? Third party cookies Google Analytics Thanks to cookies, the site remembers your actions and preferences (for example login, language, font size and other display settings) so that you do not have to re-enter them when you return to the site or browse from one page to another. What are cookies?Ī cookie is a small text file that websites save on your computer or mobile device while you visit them. To make this site work properly, we sometimes install small data files called "cookies " on your device. 760 Ī.A.V.V., Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Architetture, fantasie e grotteschi, Antichità Romane, Catalogo 24, Antiquarius, Roma, 2004, p. ![]() FICACCI, Piranesi, The Complete Etchings, Taschen, p.601, fig. The generations after him have continued to imagine the Ancient Rome as the artist has portrayed his magnificent in "Vedute". Undoubtedly Piranesi was one of the most important engravers in 18th century even if he was well-known as an architect and an archaeologist: the greatest engraver in the period from Rembrandt a Goya. Very good conditions, with normal fold, left margin lightly damaged, and little holes in higher margin due to the binding of the volume “Vases and Candelabras”. Signed on plate “Cavalier Piranesi F.” in lower left margin. Etching with good contrasts and sharp details, with a dedication to “Signor Giovanni Corbet, Cavaliere inglese”. ![]() (.Artist proof, printed on contemporary laid paper, wide margins, representing “two cinerary urns”. It seems that the artist's tireless devotion to his work and his identification with the grandeur of Rome never flagged, for on the day of his death, he spent his last hours busy among his drawings and copperplates. In his preface to the Diverse maniere d'adornare i cammini of 1769, with designs in the Etruscan, Greek, Roman, and even Rococo styles, Piranesi argued for the complete freedom of the architect or designer to draw on models from every time and place as an inspiration for his own inventions. His Delle magnificenza ed architettura de'Romani date s from 1761. In these prints, Piranesi explored the possibilities of perspective and spatial illusion while pushing the medium of etching to its limits. The series of labyrinthine prison interiors, the Carceri, was created soon after Piranesi's encounter with the lively printmaking scene in Venice. By 1747, Piranesi had begun the work for which he is best known, the Vedute di Roma, and he continued to produce plates for the series until the year of his death in 1778. Piranesi returned to his native city twice in the mid-1740s, the very years in which Canaletto was producing his luminous etched views of Venice and Tiepolo was at work on his novel series of etchings. Etching also provided Piranesi with a livelihood, allowing him to turn one of his favorite activities, drawing the ancient and modern buildings of Rome, into a lucrative source of income. The knowledge of ancient building methods demonstrated by Piranesi's archaeological prints allowed him to make a name for himself as an antiquarian-his Antichità Romane of 1756 won him election to the Society of Antiquarians of London. Quickly mastering the medium of etching, Piranesi found in it an outlet for all his interests, from designing fantastic complexes of buildings that could exist only in dreams, to reconstructing in painstaking detail the aqueduct system of the ancient Romans. Whether or not Piranesi studied printmaking in Venice, it is certain that after his arrival in Rome in 1740, he apprenticed himself briefly to Giuseppe Vasi, the foremost producer of the etched views of Rome. He received practical training in engineering from a maternal uncle who was employed by the Venetian waterworks, while his brother, a Carthusian monk, fired the aspiring architect with enthusiasm for the history and achievements of the ancient Romans. One of the greatest printmakers of the eighteenth century, Piranesi always considered himself an architect. ![]()
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