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Pair of late 20th century reproduction plate prints of work of Roman Architecture / columns by Giovanni Battista Piranesi – …
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Pair of late 20th century reproduction plate prints of work of Roman Architecture / columns by Giovanni Battista Piranesi – arches and columns from the Theater of Marcellus in Rome. Purchased at Lazarus.
“Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) - He was a major Italian printmaker, architect and antiquarian. The son of a Venetian master builder, he studied architecture and stage design, through which he became familiar with Illusionism*. During a visit (1740) to Rome, which was then emerging as the center of European Neoclassicism*, Piranesi began his lifelong obsession with the visual diversity of the city's architecture. He was taught (1740-44) etching*, the art form for which he remains best known, by Giuseppe Vasi. Piranesi then began to etch views of Roman architecture that reflected his deeply felt emotional response to the surviving remnants of ancient grandeur. Piranesi's etchings, executed from the 1740s onward, are technically masterful evocations of ancient buildings that are simultaneously scholarly inquiries and fanciful essays in space, light, and scale. When collected and published (1756) in Antichita Romane (Roman Antiquities) the 135 etchings created a sensation throughout Europe. Equally stimulating are the superb architectural fantasies depicted in his Carceri d'Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons, begun c.1745, reworked 1761).
Dimensions
23.5” x 1.5” x 29.5” / Sans Frame – 12” x 18” (Width x Depth x Height)
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- Dimensions
- 23.5ʺW × 1.5ʺD × 29.5ʺH
- Styles
- Italian
- Art Subjects
- Architecture
- Frame Type
- Framed
- Period
- Late 20th Century
- Country of Origin
- Italy
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Paper
- Wood
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- White
- Condition Notes
- Very Good Very Good less
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