Piranesi (Bibliotheca Universalis) 9783836559409

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Название: Piranesi (Bibliotheca Universalis)
Перевод названия: Пиранези
ISBN: 9783836559409
Издательство: Taschen
Классификация:

История искусств / художественные и оформительские стили

Монографии о художниках, по искусству

Архитектура

Архитекторы

Архитектурный облик и дизайн

История архитектуры

ISBN-10: 3836559404
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 856
Вес: 1.38 кг.
Дата издания: 25.03.2016
Серия: Bibliotheca universalis
Язык: English
Размер: 211 x 151 x 47
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
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Поставляется из: Германии
Описание: Archaeology and imagination: Impossible staircases and startling ruins from Italys 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 citys 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 dInvenzione, 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 Piranesis 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 mega-cities of incarceration, celebrated to this day as masterworks of existentialist drama.

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