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These views are evocative examples of Piranesi's finest work.

Piranesi plates series#

The Vedute di Roma series embodies the reasons for which Piranesi has remained one of the most enduring, creative etchers and artists of all time. Even when depicting the crumbling structures of antiquity, Piranesi imbued his etchings with a sense of vitality and timelessness. These particular prints from the Vedute di Romaseries are exemplars of Piranesi's clean, crisp style and dramatic use of light and dark. Bornin Venice, the son of a stone mason, he moved to Rome in 1745 to establish his own printing workshop to produce his architectural drawings. These weathered ruins of ancient Rome reflect Piranesi's own interest in architecture. At the same time, it reflects the dramatic intellectual changes taking place in Europe on the threshold of the modern era. Piranesi’s oeuvre demonstrates the yearning for classical antiquity felt by an era which was looking back to Ancient Rome in search ofits own lost greatness. /rebates/2fchina-wedgwood-piranesi-plates2fc2f157762&.com252fchina-wedgwood-piranesi-plates252fc252f15776226afsrc3d126SID3d&idreplacements&nameReplacements+Ltd. Generations after him would continue to imagine Ancient Rome as it is portrayed in his magnificent Vedute di Roma(Views of Rome), from which this selection of images originates. With his sovereign mastery of graphic techniques and powers of invention, he redefined the possibilities of the print medium as only Durer and Rembrandt had done before him.

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