Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi specialized in etchings with subjects from his contemporary Rome as well as eerie and elaborate old world ruins from his fertile imagination that presaged Surrealism and Romanticism. Here we see his historical etching of the Palazzo Pontificio and the iconic Roman sculptures of Pollux and Castor in the foreground.
Palazzo Pontificio, c.1750, EtchingGiovanni 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 old world ruins from his fertile imagination that presaged Surrealism and Romanticism. Here we see his historical etching of the Palazzo Pontificio and the iconic Roman sculptures of Pollux and Castor in the foreground. |
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