Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi specialized in etchings with subjects from his contemporary Rome as well as eerie and elaborate houses of detention from his fertile imagination that presaged Surrealism and Romanticism. This etching of a Grecian urn shows the master’s ability with acid to cut his metal canvases, to create wonderful “intaglio”.
A Marble Vase Sculpted with Bacchic Revels, c.1770, EngravingGiovanni Battista Piranesi Italian (1720 - 1778) |
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Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi specialized in etchings with subjects from his contemporary Rome as well as eerie and elaborate houses of detention from his fertile imagination that presaged Surrealism and Romanticism. This etching of a Grecian urn shows the master’s ability with acid to cut his metal canvases, to create wonderful “intaglio”. |
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