![]() ![]() Piranesi was born in Mogliano Veneto, near Treviso, then part of the. ![]() The exhibition ends with the famous Prisons of Invention (1761), impossible and obscure architectures that will influence Romanticism and Surrealism and that in the centuries-old flourish of different interpretations keep their inexhaustibility intact. Giovanni Battista (also Giambattista) Piranesi (Italian pronunciation: dovanni battista piranezi 4 October 1720 9 November 1778) was an Italian artist famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric 'prisons' (Le Carceri d'Invenzione). The exhibition presents two series of works dedicated to the Eternal City: Roman Antiquities (1756) and Views of Rome (1748-1778) in which Piranesi, through the skillful use of lights and shadows, has been able to celebrate the sense of monumental and artistic magnificence of ancient and modern Rome. His celebration of ancient Rome was also of a theoretical nature when, as opposed to Winckelmann’s neoclassicism, he placed the emphasis on the superiority of Roman art over the Greek one.Īncient Roman amphitheatres disintegrated by time, obelisks swallowed by greenery, fantastic and grotesque masks, aristocratic palaces flooded with light, hallucinatory visions of dark and terrible prisons, ruins of spas, bridges and banks of the Tiber, constitute the inexhaustible themes of its extraordinary production of etchings. Piazza Navona is an elegant Renaissance masterpiece sometimes called the Square of Fountains. Inspired initially by Marco Ricci’s ruined intuitions and assimilated the lesson of Tiepolo and Canaletto, Piranesi gradually transformed his style. For nearly 400 years, the Piazza Navona has been an artistic jewel at the heart of Rome’s centro storico. Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Piranesi. In his youth he defined himself as a Venetian architect but once he moved to Rome he became famous for his engravings representing classical ruins and ancient monuments. Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 - 1778), also know as Giambattista, is considered the last great exponent of the eighteenth century Venetian engraving. ![]()
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