Views of Rome: Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli, Giovanni Battista Piranesi https://t.co/VWb7B81Grl

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Views of Rome: Temple of Cybele, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1758 https://t.co/XWruie5kuJ

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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Author Susanna Clarke to Publish New Novel in 2020 https://t.co/SAScY0jcFv via

THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Sixteen years after giving us Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, author Susanna Clarke will publish her second novel, Piranesi!

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"Piranesi will follow the story of its eponymous hero, who lives in the House, a building with “hundreds if not thousands of rooms and corridors, imprisoning an ocean. A watery labyrinth.”

hmmm Piranesi....

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Have a look at this detailed 18th cent. copperplate of a gladiator helmet by G.B. Piranesi. What a perfect use of light and shade. &
❤️ Piranesi!!!

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Emily Allchurch:
This series, largely inspired by Giovanni Battista compositions of forms a dialogue between and the taking on the tradition of the Via https://t.co/OWTSJtTOKb

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How to Train your Artist. - It’s Art Quiz time, everybody! (Prize including) // Me writing about Art in Times of // Feat. Piranesi, Max Ernst, Jean-Baptiste Lallemand - and probably Velázquez and Francis Bacon.
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"These speaking ruins have filled my spirit with images that accurate drawings, even such as those of the immortal Palladio, could never have succeeded in conveying." -Piranesi. Get a copy of Piranesi: The Complete Etchings from our shop https://t.co/b9JxvGR7Eb

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Artist and architect Thomas Sandby intended this ‘Bridge of Magnificence’ to span the Thames at Somerset House. Inspired by Piranesi and Palladio the c. 1780 design consisted of nine arches supporting a colonnade and classical pavilions. Image © The Trustees of the

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More Strange & Fantastical Post-Apocalyptic Ruins by François de Nomé (1593 – after 1620). The Frenchman lived in Naples, and created paintings of imaginary ruins - some inspired by the Fall of Rome & Sack of Troy. He lived 100 years before Piranesi & 300 before the Surrealists.

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The Ruins of Ancient Rome by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778). "His etchings of the remains of a great civilization couple his archaeological interest in detail with his flair for dramatic effect...the ruins suggest romance, mystery, melancholy, awesome possibility & loss."

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Transmediatic translations: & the Milo Manara, Jodorowsky, Piranesi's Carceri et al in 'I Borgia' (2004-2011). Via

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A first flop. 7 years before Piranesi's astounding Imaginary Prisons (1750) were published, he created an equally amazing book of 12 prints of "imaginary buildings & ancient ruins". The "Prima Parte di Architetture e Prospettive" did not sell but Piranesi was undeterred.

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Emily Allchurch's interpretation of Piranesi, painstakingly reconstructed entirely from her own photography. There is under a month left to see Emily Allchurch: Visions of Architectural Fancy at the Soane. Entry free! https://t.co/NM633JplSa

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In this work Emily Allchurch recreates a Piranesi sketch using photography. To 'photograph' these imaginary designs, Allchurch stitched together similar elements from other classical buildings and modern landmarks. Find out more: https://t.co/NM633JplSa

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The devil is in the detail! Almost like a coloured version - but not really the same. A beautiful interpretation of Piranesis "Via Appia" by Emily Allchurch.

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Emily Allchurch's 'Sic Transit Gloria Mundi' reconstructs Piranesi's fantastical view of Rome with London buildings. Hear Emily discuss the work in her own words at our artist and curator's talk https://t.co/ih9k70xocp

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Inspired by Piranesi's fantastical prints, come and see this complex digital collage created by internationally-renowned artist Emily Allchurch at https://t.co/YnJrazLCg0

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Inspired by Piranesi's fantastical prints, this complex digital collage features in Emily Allchurch, Visions of Architectural Fancy, which opens on Wednesday. https://t.co/NM633JplSa

The exhibition was generously supported by the Bern Schwartz Family Foundation.

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