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_q(hardback)
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050 _aArt/NE2052.5.P5
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100 1 _aPiranesi, Giovanni Battista,
_d1720-1778
_9106976
_eaut
245 1 0 _aGiovanni Battista Piranesi :
_bthe complete etchings = Gesamtkatalog der Kupferstiche = catalogue raisonné des eaux-fortes /
_cGiovanni Battista Piranesi ; [introduction by] Luigi Ficacci.
246 3 0 _aComplete etchings.
246 1 4 _aPiranesi, the complete etchings.
264 1 _aKöln :
_bTaschen Bibliotheca Universalis,
_c[2016]
264 4 _c©2016.
300 _a853 pages :
_bchiefly illustrations (black and white), facsimiles ;
_c21 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent.
336 _astill image
_bstill image
_2rdacontent.
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia.
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier.
500 _aCover title: Piranesi, the complete etchings.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _aHISTORY 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.
546 _aText in English, German and French.
600 1 0 _aPiranesi, Giovanni Battista,
_d1720-1778.
650 0 _aEtching, Italian
_9106977
650 0 _aEtching
_xTechnique
_9105210
651 0 _aRome (Italy)
_xAntiquities
_967678
700 1 _aFicacci, Luigi
_9106978
_eedt
710 2 _9111498
_aTaschen (Firm)
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_cKT
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