The Man on the Rack

Minneapolis Institute of Art

The Man on the Rack

Giovanni Battista PiranesiLinkedCulture matchlcp-4ee1b5daa952

Date
c. 1761
Medium
Etching and engraving
Department
European Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
52627

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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The Martha T. Wallace Memorial Fund, 1930

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