Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Fantasy of Ruins with a Statue of Minerva in the Center Foreground, the frontispiece for Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome), ca. 1748.
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.
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Fantasy of Ruins with a Statue of Minerva in the Center Foreground
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Date
1748
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Vedute di Roma
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