强烈的光、影和空间对比,以及对细节的准确描绘,是他作品的特点。在《卡西里·德·英芬辛内》(Carceri·d'Invenzione)中有许多极富想象力的监狱场景,是他最具创造性的作品 Archaeology and imagination: Impossible staircases and startling ruins from Italys master engraver
The most famous 18th-century copper engraver, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (17201778) made his name with etchings of ancient Rome. Hisstartling, 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 hiselaborate series of fanciful prisons Carceri dInvenzione, which have influenced generations of creatives since, from theSurrealists to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edgar Allen Poe, Jorge Luis Borges andFranz 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 becomemonstrous mega-cities of incarceration, celebrated to this day asmasterworks of existentialist drama.
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