Piranesi Drawings : Visions of Antiquity
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Piranesi Drawings : Visions of Antiquity

ISBN 13:  9780500480618

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Illustrations  Illustrated throughout with numerous prints
Author  Sarah Vowles
Illustrator  Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Format  Paperback
No. of Pages  144
Brand:  Thames and Hudson

A key figure in the history of architectural drawing and printmaking, Ventian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1770 - 1778) was the influential genius behind the wildly imaginative and evocative Le Carceri series of prints - with important examples and collections held in the British Museum. Known for interiors and enclosed spaces filled with a unique atmosphere of spatial fantasy, overwhelming, inhuman scale and oppresive baroque alienation, his work was underpinned by exceptional draughtsmanship and a keen understanding of the principles - perspective, line and plane, vanishing point and other techniques that supported his architectural imagination. 
This is a showcase of his outstanding sketches and drawings, held as a collection in the British museum, with knowledgeable contextual commentary by British museum curator Sarah Vowles. 

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