TY  - BOOK
AU  - Piranesi,Giovanni Battista
AU  - Ficacci,Luigi
ED  - Taschen (Firm)
TI  - Giovanni Battista Piranesi: the complete etchings = Gesamtkatalog der Kupferstiche = catalogue raisonné des eaux-fortes 
SN  - 9783836559409
AV  - Art/NE2052.5.P5  A4 2016
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Köln
PB  - Taschen Bibliotheca Universalis
KW  - Piranesi, Giovanni Battista,
KW  - Etching, Italian
KW  - Etching
KW  - Technique
KW  - Rome (Italy)
KW  - Antiquities
N1  - Cover title: Piranesi, the complete etchings; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - HISTORY OF ART / ART and DESIGN STYLES. Archaeology and imagination: Impossible staircases and startling ruins from Italy s master engraver. 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 travelled 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 d Invenzione, which have influenced generations of creatives since, from the Surrealists to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edgar Allen 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
ER  -