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Piranesi Giambattista . 1720--78, Italian etcher and architect: etchings include Imaginary Prisons and Views of Rome How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The simple act of changing trains is elevated into a spatial and visual experience that recalls the awesome visions of Piranesi. Benjamin Edwards works in the tradition of Piranesi, Etienne-Louis Boullee, and Archigram, creating two-dimensional images of fantasy architecture. The Renaissance is at the heart of this study, but later chapters also examine the evolution of drawing practice in Rembrandt, in the eighteenth-century capriccio (Hogarth, Piranesi, the Tiepolo, and Goya), and, as an epilogue, in Picasso. |
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