Piranesi Carceri Xi
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Carceri D'Invenzione - print 11, second edition
This intaglio print was made by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in the 1760’s. It was the eleventh in a series of fourteen, entitled ‘Carceri D’invenzione’, or ‘Prison of Creation’. Piranesi had much architectural influence, his father being ....
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.... Roman art and architecture had a profound impact not only on the succeeding art of the Middle Ages, but on this Renaissance and baroque period as well. John Welton-Ely, in The Mind and the Art of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, went one step further in suggesting the Carceri was
...a gesture of defiance to the partons and
architects of Rome who had failed to measure
up to the creative possibilities suggested by
the ‘speaking ruins’ surrounding them.
This particular print is an excellent e ....
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