Carceri d’Invenzione  IV The Grand Piazza

£2,800.00

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

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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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