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Title page, second edition, 1761. Carceri d'invenzione, often translated as Imaginary Prisons, is a series of 16 etchings by the Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 14 produced from c. 1745 to 1750, when the first edition of the set was published.
Giovanni Battista (or Giambattista) Piranesi (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni batˈtista piraˈneːzi;-eːsi]; also known as simply Piranesi; 4 October 1720 – 9 November 1778) was an Italian classical archaeologist, architect, and artist, famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" (Carceri d'invenzione).
Piranesi is a novel by English author Susanna Clarke, published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2020. It is Clarke's second novel, following her debut Jonathan Strange ...
The Prison, a 1968 novel by Georges Simenon Prisons F.C. , a Tanzanian football club Imaginary Prisons , or simply Prisons , a series of 18th-century prints by Giovanni Battista Piranesi
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Veduta della Rotonda (the Pantheon, Rome), Laura Piranesi. Laura Piranesi (1754–1789) was an Italian etcher working in Rome towards the end of the 18th century. She was an active participant in her family's print workshop, run by her father Giovanni Battista Piranesi, an Italian artist, etcher, and antiquarian.
Carceri d'Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons), a series of prints (1750–1761) by Piranesi; Carceri, Veneto, a municipality in Padua, Italy; Carceri (band), a Dutch death metal band; Carceri (Dungeons & Dragons) or the Tarterian Depths of Carceri, a plane of existence in the Dungeons & Dragons game
Boullée, Cénotaphe à Newton (1784) Boullée promoted the idea of making architecture expressive of its purpose, a doctrine that his detractors termed architecture parlante ("talking architecture"), which was an essential element in Beaux-Arts architectural training in the later 19th century.