Tag: Piranesi

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Piranesi and the anxiety of modernity

Contributed by Armin Kunz / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720�1778) created innumerable views of ancient and modern (that is, Baroque) Rome that together formed his monumental print cycles �Antichit� Romane� and �Vedute di Roma.� They established his fame and lured generations of travelers to the Eternal City. Today, however, he is […]