Luigi Ficacci. Piranesi. The Complete Etchings XL (Ficacci Luigi); Taschen, 2022

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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ISBN	978-3-8365-8761-7
Автор(ы)	Ficacci Luigi
Вес	4.3
Возрастное ограничение	12+
Возрастные ограничения	12
Год издания	2022
Жанр	история живописи и графики
Издатель	Taschen
Издательство	Taschen
Кол-во страниц	788
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	788
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Раздел	Книги на английском языке
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Язык издания	Английский
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