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Chief among them is his highly unusual series of prints called Imaginary Prisons. These etchings were issued as a collection of fourteen around 1749–50 and then reissued—after significant reworking—as a set of sixteen in 1761.
Carceri d'invenzione, often translated as Imaginary Prisons, is a series of 16 etchings by the Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 14 produced from c. 1745 to 1750, when the first edition of the set was published.
In the rough and bold etchings of the Carceri, Piranesi achieved the immediacy of a drawn sketch in print. The low viewpoint and the small size of the figures emphasize the immensity of these invented spaces, based on stage prisons rather than real ones.
3 de jul. de 2018 · Giovanni Battista Piranesi fue un ilustrador de antigüedades arqueológicas. Todo lo descubierto en Roma durante el siglo XVIII pasó por sus ojos y fue reproducido a la perfección en sus grabados.
Imaginary Prisons: Giovanni Battista Piranesi Prints. Throughout his career, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) produced carefully prepared views in and around Rome. He derived the principal inspiration for this vast production of etchings from firsthand examinations of classical antiquities as well as from Renaissance and Baroque structures.
Between 1745 and 1761 Giovanni Battista Piranesi made a series of etchings depicting imaginary prisons. He called them Carceri d’invenzione. Very soon these drawings gave rise to multiple metaphorical, historically or psychologically tinted interpretations.
Series/Portfolio: Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons) Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome) Publisher: Giovanni Bouchard (French, ca. 1716–1795)
