Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Man on the Rack
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
- Date
- c. 1761
- Medium
- Etching and engraving
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
Piranesi added this plate and plate V to the series in 1761, when he was reworking the original fourteen plates. The two new plates reflect his increasing familiarity with the art of Roman antiquity, which played a much more prominent role in these new images. Here, amid a profusion of sculptural reliefs, he makes the torture of a prisoner absolutely explicit. Italy, Europe
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