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Piranesi: The Complete Etchings (多种语言) 精装

作者：Luigi Ficacci

出版社: Taschen GmbH; Multilingual (2016年4月25日)

精装: 853页

语种： 多种语言

ISBN: 3836559404

条形码: 9783836559409

商品尺寸: 16.5 x 5.1 x 21.6 cm

商品重量: 798 g

ASIN: 3836559404

内容简介

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. Hisstartling, 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 hiselaborate series of fanciful prisons Carceri d?Invenzione, which have influenced generations of creatives since, from theSurrealists to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edgar Allen Poe, Jorge Luis Borges andFranz 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 becomemonstrous mega-cities of incarceration, celebrated to this day asmasterworks of existentialist drama.

作者简介

Luigi Ficaccistudied art history in Rome under Giulio Carlo Argan. For many years, he was curator at the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica in Rome and lectured at various Italian universities.

From 2007 to 2015, he was Bologna's general museum director (Soprintendente ai Beni Culturali); today he is general museum director in Lucca. The focal points of his research work are the issues raised by 17th and 18th century and contemporary Italian and European art.