Piranesi Unbound

by Heather Hyde Minor and Carolyn Yerkes

Why Piranesi's greatest works weren't his famous prints but rather the books for which he made them

A draftsman, printmaker, architect, and archaeologist, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) is best known today as the virtuoso etcher of the immersive and captivating Views of Rome and the darkly inventive Imaginary Prisons. Yet Carolyn Yerkes and Heather Hyde Minor argue that his single greatest art form--one that combined...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691206104
• ISBN13: 9780691206103
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 3.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.2" x 11.8"