Piranesi Unbound |
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| Author:
| Yerkes, Carolyn
Minor, Heather Hyde |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-20610-3 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2020 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $74.00 |
Book Description:
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Why Piranesi's greatest works weren't his famous prints but rather the books for which he made themA draftsman, printmaker, architect, and archaeologist, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) is best known today as the virtuoso etcher of the immersive and captivating Views of Rome and the darkly inventive Imaginary Prisons. Yet Carolyn Yerkes an
Why Piranesi's greatest works weren't his famous prints but rather the books for which he made themA draftsman, printmaker, architect, and archaeologist, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) is best known today as the virtuoso etcher of the immersive and captivating Views of Rome and the darkly inventive Imaginary Prisons. Yet Carolyn Yerkes an