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The Piranesi Effect.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Sydney : NewSouth Publishing, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (332 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781742247366
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Piranesi EffectDDC classification:
  • 769.92
LOC classification:
  • NE2052.5.P5 -- .P573 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Author biographies -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. The Piranesi Tourist -- 2. The Piranesi Effect -- 3. Piranesi in Tiepolo's Venetian studio -- 4. Piranesi: Rediscovering antiquity -- 5. Una Roma visuale: Piranesi and Vasi -- 6. Piranesi's creative imagination: The capriccio and the carceri -- 7 Irrational architecture in the Carcero d'invenzione -- 8. Piranesi and MONA: Inspiration or retrospective myth? -- 9. Piranesi and Australian printmakers -- 10. Roman antiquity: Piranesi versus Mariette -- 11. Piranesi and Pirro Ligorio: The vernacular antiquarian imagination -- 12. Archbishop Goold's first Paris edition of Piranesi's works -- 13. The Baroque Bishop: Piranesi in the collection of J.A. Goold -- 14. Auckland's Piranesi collection - The Kupferstich - Kabinett of Dr Auburn -- 15. Unfinished symphony: My experience of Piranesi -- 16. The evolution of Piranesi's plates -- 17. Piranesi's last decade: A reappraisal of the Vasi -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: The work of Italian printmaker Giovanni Battista Piranesi (17201778) has captivated artists, architects and designers for centuries. Although contemporary Australia is a long way from eighteenth-century Rome, it is home to substantial collections of his works, the largest being at the State Library of Victoria and the University of Melbourne.
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Intro -- Contents -- Author biographies -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. The Piranesi Tourist -- 2. The Piranesi Effect -- 3. Piranesi in Tiepolo's Venetian studio -- 4. Piranesi: Rediscovering antiquity -- 5. Una Roma visuale: Piranesi and Vasi -- 6. Piranesi's creative imagination: The capriccio and the carceri -- 7 Irrational architecture in the Carcero d'invenzione -- 8. Piranesi and MONA: Inspiration or retrospective myth? -- 9. Piranesi and Australian printmakers -- 10. Roman antiquity: Piranesi versus Mariette -- 11. Piranesi and Pirro Ligorio: The vernacular antiquarian imagination -- 12. Archbishop Goold's first Paris edition of Piranesi's works -- 13. The Baroque Bishop: Piranesi in the collection of J.A. Goold -- 14. Auckland's Piranesi collection - The Kupferstich - Kabinett of Dr Auburn -- 15. Unfinished symphony: My experience of Piranesi -- 16. The evolution of Piranesi's plates -- 17. Piranesi's last decade: A reappraisal of the Vasi -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

The work of Italian printmaker Giovanni Battista Piranesi (17201778) has captivated artists, architects and designers for centuries. Although contemporary Australia is a long way from eighteenth-century Rome, it is home to substantial collections of his works, the largest being at the State Library of Victoria and the University of Melbourne.

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