Art Institute of Chicago
The Round Tower, plate 3 from the second edition of Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)
Giovanni Battista PiranesiLinkedCulture matchlcp-ff8d60670545
- Date
- 1750, reworked 1761
- Medium
- Etching, engraving, sulphur tint, and burnishing in black on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 74624
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
In addition to dramatic views of Roman architecture, Giovanni Battista Piranesi created a series of prison interiors that were entirely invented. These vast, entangled passageways and cavernous chambers were first printed around 1750. Ten years later, Piranesi reworked the plates, heightening their ominous state in an implied critique of social injustice.
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- Credit line
- Joseph Brooks Fair Memorial Collection
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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