They also made an impact in later artistic and literary contexts. In his earlier work, he developed architectural fantasies and dark visions of imaginary prisons, the Carceri d’Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons), which have fascinated people ever since they first appeared. He spent his lifetime recording the magnificent buildings and ruins of ancient Rome. Also available online - Piranesi and the infinite prisons SERGIO RONCATO ∗ Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Università di Padova, Via Venezia 8, Italy Received 14 July 2006 accepted 24 December 2006 Abstract -Piranesi was an extraordinarily talented artist who came to be considered the best known engraver and etcher of the 18th century. Spatial Vision (continued as Seeing & Perceiving from 2010) Brill

Analysis of these texts provides a rich set of aesthetic and psychological attributes as well as detailed indications of where to seek the How did Piranesi generate such a powerful source of meaning? I have reviewed a number of contributions by art essayists in the search for what lies behind the fascination of the ‘ Carceri ’. Today they are considered the best expression of bewilderment, of the world’s massive oppression of man. Piranesi and the infinite prisons Piranesi and the infinite prisons

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