Piranesi's masterful representations of architecture are now reprinted in large format alongside corresponding contemporary photographs. Monuments of ancient, early Christian, Renaissance and Baroque Rome — Colosseum, Forum, fountains, etc. — with auxiliary notes on both the etchings and photographs. 82 plates.

Views of Rome, Then and Now

Arts & Photography

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista

Levit, Hershel

Individual Artists

Dover Publications

Catalogs Piranesi's numerous designs for buildings and furnishings as well as his rare figure studies

Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library

PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY

STAMPFLE, Felice

Dover Pubns

The timeless Carceri etchings of Piranesi (1720–1778) represent not only spectacular artistic accomplishments but also unforgettable expressions of psychological truths. Combining the influences of Tiepolo, Bibiena, and Rembrandt, these works of architectural fantasy challenge the boundaries of perception, creating a vast system of visual provocation. Innumerable staircases, immense vaults, and other ambiguous structures are compounded with projecting beams, pulleys, rickety catwalks and gangways, dangling ropes and chains, and the occasional shadowy human figure. This full reproduction in book form of The Prisons, made directly from mint copies of original prints, presents both editions of Piranesi's work, with prints on facing pages for convenient comparison. The first edition (circa 1745) ranks among the most rare and valuable print collections in existence and abounds in a multiplicity of perspectives—an innovation that predates Cubism by two centuries. For the second (1761) edition, Piranesi reworked the plates, adding elaborate details that alter some of them almost beyond recognition. It is in the second, more emotionally challenging renditions that his masterful management of light and shadow is most evident. This edition features an informative Introduction by Philip Hofer, in addition to a Preface by John Howe, a conceptual designer on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

The Prisons / Le Carceri (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)

Piranesi: Etchings and drawings

Thames and Hudson

The Art of Exaggeration: Piranesi's Perspectives on Rome- Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, February 22-April 15, 1995

Eunice D. Howe, et al.

The Gallery

First illustrated edition of the complete etched work. Over 1,100 reproductions. With concordances to Focillon, Hind, The Calcografia, and Robison.

Piranesi: The Complete Etchings (volume I and II)

WILTON-ELY, John.

Alan Wofsy Fine Arts

Piranesi architetto: Roma, 15 maggio-5 luglio 1992, American Academy in Rome (Italian Edition)

Edizioni Dell'Elefante

On the Magnificence and Architecture of the Romans (Annotated)

Johnson, Ian Konrad

Architecture

Independently published

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