The Drawbridge, from Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)

Item

Title

The Drawbridge, from Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)

Creator

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Date Created

1749

Type

Artwork

Description

Trained as an architect, the master printmaker Giovanni Battista Piranesi, created his Imaginary Prisons (Carceri d’invenzione) series in the mid to late 18th century. This series of darkly foreboding interior scenes, which depict over-lapping archways and stairways that seem to lead nowhere, influenced the work of Lord Byron, Escher’s impossible geometries, as well as Poe 's classic tale of horror, The Pit and the Pendulum.

Is Part Of

Fine Art

Source

Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)

uri

The Drawbridge, from Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)