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      Piranesi ; Giovanni Batistta . Veduta Degli Avanzi Del Tablino Della Casa Aurea Di Nerone Detti Volgarmente Il Tempio Della Pace.

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      Piranesi, Giovanni Battista . View of the remains of the tablinum of the Golden House of Nero, commonly called the Temple of Peace.

      Original antique engraving by Giovanni Piranesi.

      Published for The Vedute of Rome, 1776

      Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 – 1778) was an Italian classical archaeologist, architect, and artist, famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric landscapes.

      Even though the social structure by an aristocracy remained rigid and oppressive, Venice revived through the Grand Tour as the centre of intellectual and international exchange in the eighteenth century. The ideas of the Enlightenment stimulated theorists and artists all over Europe including Paris, Dresden, and London. New forms of artistic expression emerged: veduta, capriccio, and veduta ideata, topographical view, architectural fantasy, accurate renderings of ancient monuments assembled with imaginary compositions in response to the demand of increased visitors.

      The developing centre of the Grand Tour was Rome. Rome became a new meeting place and intellectual capital of Europe for the leaders of a new movement in the arts. The city was attracting artists and architects from all over Europe beside the Grand Tourists, dealers and antiquarians. While many came through official institutions such as the French Academy, others came to see the new discoveries at Herculaneum and Pompeii. Coffee shops were frequent gathering places, most famously the Antico Caffè Greco, established 1760. The Caffe degli Inglesi opened several years later, at the foot of the Spanish Steps in Piazza di Spagna, with wall paintings by Piranesi. With his own print workshop and museo of antiquities nearby, Piranesi was able to cultivate relationships in both places with wealthy buyers on the tour, particularly English.[3]

      The remains of Rome kindled Piranesi's enthusiasm. Informed by his experience in Venice and his study of the works ofMarco Ricciand particularlyGiovanni Paolo Panini, he appreciated not only the engineering of the ancient buildings but also the poetic aspects of the ruins. He was able to faithfully imitate the actual remains; his invention in catching thedesign of the original architectprovided the missing parts. His masterful skill at engraving introduced groups of vases, altars, tombs that were absent in reality; his manipulations of scale; and his broad and scientific distribution of light and shade completed the picture, creating a striking effect from the whole view.

      A number of theViewsare notable for depicting human figures whose poverty, lameness, apparent drunkenness, and other visible flaws appear to echo the decay of the ruins. This is consistent with a familiar trope of Renaissance literature, in which the ruins of Rome are lamented as a metaphor for the imperfection and transience of human existence.

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