PIRANESI THE COMPLETE ETCHINGS
LUIGI FICACCI Book Number: 79599 Product format: Hardback
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 city's archaeological ruins with drama and romance and became favourite souvenirs for the Grand Tourists. This catalogue of the complete etchings discovers his masterpieces and perspective on architecture, views of villas and other sites of Tuscany, various views of ancient and modern Rome, a new plan of Rome, some views of triumphal arches and monuments, grotesques, fantasy of architecture with the Fall of Phaeton, the antiquities of Rome, ruins, Capitoline inscriptions, the Campus Martius of Ancient Rome, antiquities of Albano, Cori, Blackfriars Bridge, ways of ornamenting chimney pieces, vases, candelabra, gravestones and sarcophagi and ornamental letters in the Graphic Ornament section. Exquisite etchings throughout. Heavyweight, quality paper, bookmarker. 5.5" x 7.7", 856 pages. Text in English, French and German. New from Taschen.
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