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#Carceri giovanni battista piranesi series#

Bierens de Haan, who in 1936 donated ninety-seven sheets from the Vedute di Roma, a series of impressive views of monumental Roman ruins. Many of them were acquired through the generosity of the collector J.C.J. Additional Artwork Information: Piranesi’s prints are well represented in the museum’s collection.Creator Birth Place: Mogliano Veneto, Italy.These large prints of terrifying monumental dungeons show the brilliant technique and imagination of Piranesi. For this second state Piranesi drastically revised the images and etched them much more deeply, enhancing the dramatic effect. The series consists of fourteen prints, to which two more were added in the second series. Complete sets of the first state are especially rare. Piranesi’s famous print series the Carceri the museum owns both the first state (1749-50) and the second state (1761). The hallucinatory nature of these works is strengthened by the fact that the perspective makes the scene increasingly complicated and impenetrable. They conjure up immense buildings through which staircases wind endlessly and a human being is a miniscule detail becoming more and more insignificant. Later he made his own architectural creations on paper, works with a stunning and terrifying impact – especially the series 'Carceri’ (dungeons). Initially, he limited his work to making romantic impressions of vast ruins from Roman antiquity. Even during his lifetime these earned him great fame. He transferred his dreams and fantasies into a major series of etchings.

An important part of the museum’s collection of prints is formed by the almost two hundred etchings done by the Italian artist and architect, Giovanni Battista Piranesi.