Master Architect Of the Fallen Arch. Piranesi Etchings Evoke a Rome in Ruins. March 23, 2006. By Linda Hales. Images of destruction are regular fare, whether from Hollywood or the nightly news.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Le Carceri d'Invenzione, plate 7 - Second Edition, 1761. The irrational spaces of the vaulted prisons offered no opportunity for escape. Staircases swooped over the eternal ...

View THE ARCH OF SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS WITH THE CHURCH OF S. MARTINA ON THE R. FROM VEDUTE DI ROMA H. 54 by Giovanni Battista Piranesi on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by Giovanni Battista ...

View A perspective of Roman arches, with two lions carved in relief on stone slabs in the foreground, pl.V from Carceri by Giovanni Battista Piranesi on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots ...

Credit: Courtesy. On some level, every novel is about its protagonist’s journey to find out who they really are, although Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi follows that pattern more literally than most novels ...