Giovanni Battista Piranesi, The Giant Wheel, from the first edition of carceri d’invenzione (imaginary prisons), ca. 1750.
Featured on PDR in the essay A Paper Archaeology: Piranesi’s Ruinous Fantasias
From the vast confines of his _imaginary prisons_ to the billowy scenes that comprise his _grotteschi_, the early works of Giovanni Battista Piranesi wed the exacting details of first-hand observation with the farthest reaches of artistic imagination. Susan Stewart journeys through this 18th-century engraver-architect’s paper worlds.
Also appearing in the essay…
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The Giant Wheel
Artist
Date
1750
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Carceri d’invenzione
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