Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Carceri d’Invenzione IV The Grand Piazza
Rome 1761, this edition, Paris ca. 1810
Etching
550 x 410 mm
£2800
Hind iii/iii Wilton Ely 32
In these haunting images a sense of threat both real and implied, is combined with with an illusion of infinite space (the result of the diagonal system of perspective used, itself derived from the innovative stage designs of the Bibiena family). The conflation, compounded further by the often frantic character of Piranesi’s line, gives rise to what John Wilton-Ely has decribed as “a nervous continuum with no point of stability or rest throughout
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