By Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1750-1761
All 16 plates of Carceri d’Invenzione as facsimile giclées at the size of the original sheet, kept in a Solander box the way a library keeps the original.
Limited to 50 sets, each numbered and embossed.
Price on request
The plates are also sold one by one, from $225.
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Carceri d’Invenzione
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1750-1761
The contents page in the box lists every plate. Each title opens the single print.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), the Venetian architect and etcher who worked in Rome, first published his imaginary prisons anonymously in 1750. In 1761 he reissued them under his own name as Carceri d’invenzione: 16 etchings, reworked and bitten much more deeply for a darker effect.
The plates show vast underground vaults, endless stairs and great machines, with the figures reduced to tiny details; titles include The Man on the Rack and The Pier with Chains.
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