Part one of term paper
Carceri D'Invenzione - print 11, second edition This intaglio print was made by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in the 1760’s. It was the eleventh in a series of fourteen, entitled ‘Carceri D’invenzione’, or ‘Prison of Creation’. Piranesi had much architectural influence, his father being a stonemason and brother an architect. The pr ...

Part two of term paper
... is not precisely know. The events that occurred in Rome in the 1700’s do not give us much of an insight. However, it has been written in numerous books that the Carceri was a product of opium-induced hallucinations. It has also been suggested that Piranesi’s inspiration was previous Roman art itself. Roman art and architecture had a profound impact not only on the succeeding art of the Middle Ages, but on this Renaissance and baroque period as well. John Welton-Ely, in The Mind and the A ...