#carceri d'invenzione by giovanni battista piranesi

[coffee-without-anesthetics]

innocuous lifeforms

a garden of infinity, wherein fractals merely decorate the walls, staircases built to ascend past the event horizon, and descend below the depths of the human imagination, whose architecture repeats after repetition, endlessly beautiful.

prisons expanding to the right, to the left, before and before, holding captives not of crime, but holding dearly the hands of those trapped inside, themselves unidentified, voiceless, shadowless; and they wander spaces meant for giants, for beings to whom giants are specs, and do not ask the reason they exist.

a library of possibilities incomprehensible, jargon of the mind to the eyes and perception, in which luck is nigh but a factor; hexagons to wonder at and wander in, paper to touch and to hold as close as family, burials falling from one sky and into another, until something carrying sense is found; and then, it is discarded, until another page holding a name may be carried like a lost limb, like by a servant of the flesh, a child of the senses.

#about things representing infinity #about places representing infinity #if it wasnt clear heres the places in order #manifold garden #carceri d'invenzione by giovanni battista piranesi #the library of babel #short poem #fifi's poems #post anesthetics posts

[leschroniquesdeben]

Giovanni Battista Piranesi -  Le carceri d'invenzione (les prisons imaginaires)

Planche III - La Tour ronde

Planche VI - Le Brasier fumant

Planche X - La Plate-forme aux prisonniers

Planche XI - L'Arche aux gradins

Planche XIV - L'Arche gothique

Planche XVI - Le Pilier aux chaînes

#Giovanni Battista Piranesi - Le carceri d'invenzione (les prisons imaginaires).

[atlas-arq]

Carceri d'Invenzione

1745

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

#piranesi

[thegianpieromennitipolis]

CONFERENZE - POLIS di Gianpiero Menniti racconta la Comunicazione l'Arte e la Politica

IL '600 E IL '700: L'INCESSANTE BAROCCO - di Gianpiero Menniti

Questa volta un tema spesso trascurato e sovente mal compreso: il "Barocco", una corrente artistica e culturale che investe la penisola italiana ormai rassegnata al suo inevitabile declino tra le potenze europee.

Eppure, ancora immersa in una straordinaria vena creativa: non solo Pietro da Cortona, Bernini e Borromini, ma artisti di enorme qualità, da Domenichino a Lanfranco, da Mola a Mattia Preti, da Nicolas Poussin a Baciccio, transitando poi da "Canaletto" al nipote Bellotto, da Giambattista Tiepolo al figlio altrettanto famoso Giandomenico Tiepolo, fino alle "Carceri d'invenzione" di Giovanni Battista Piranesi.

L'avvento della modernità, tra scienza e nuovi diritti emergenti, si lascia cogliere nell'arte tra modelli di purezza espositiva e il naturalismo esasperato di Caravaggio, tra il "vedutismo" che lascia segni indelebili e il proto-romanticismo che si afferma nell'ultimo trentennio del XVIII secolo accanto al neo-classicismo che abbandona al suo destino la lunga e controversa età barocca.

#thegianpieromennitipolis #arte #racconti #conferenze #barocco

[sparrowsfallingfromthesky]

by the way this is terrible picture quality but this is what I ended up doing with my wall last week. I still have to stick everything down more securely and I might make a few adjustments but I'm pretty satisfied.

I even made a shitty gallery guide:

1. Pictures of me with the 4 core members of Darlingside 2. Picture of me with Aaron Tveit 3.-4.   Carousel animal ornaments from the Smithsonian 5.-9.   Photo collages with my college friends 10.-12. Drawings of Les Amis de l'ABC as pigeons by me 13. Portrait of Victor Hugo by Alphonse Legros (Harvard Art Museums) 14.-15. Winnie-the-Pooh pencil drawings by E.H. Shepard (Victoria & Albert Museum) 16. Isabella Stewart Gardner museum, photo by Clements & Howcroft 17. Etching from Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons) by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (British Library) 18. Cantica de Medicina by Avicenna (Boston Medical Library/Center for the History of Medicine) 19. Vanitas Still Life by Herman Henstenburgh (Morgan Library & Museum) 20. Mystique by Amy Brown 21. Art by Ulla Thynell 22. Medea by William Wetmore Story (MFA Boston) 23. Rockets and Blue Lights (Close at Hand) to Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water by JMW Turner (Clark Art Institute/MFA Boston) 24. Twilight by George Inness (Williams College Museum of Art) 25. Path to Shambhala by Nicholas Roerich (Nicholas Roerich Museum) 26. Star of the Hero by Nicholas Roerich 27. Palden Lhamo by Nicholas Roerich 28. First Touch (redraw of a still from Pride and Prejudice (2005)) by Kalogh on redbubble 29.-43. Art by @ullathynell (bought from artist's website, but she also has society6) 44. A Thousand Cranes (left screen) by Kayama Matazo (National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo) 45. Art of northern flicker by Sarah Martinez 46. Bird art by me 47. Cover design for Bury the Lede by Dora Lariat by me 48. "ex libris" book plates from my college English department 49. Ship with seven men, net and gull by Alfred Wallis (Kettle's Yard, Cambridge) 50. Farewell by @riisinaakka-draws 51. Piece of eight necklace 52. "Know no shame" inscription from Black Sails 53. Book of adventures by dandingeroz on redbubble 54. Farewell and Good Riddance to Skeleton Island by riisinaakka 55. The Walrus at Night by riisinaakka 56. The map from Treasure Island 57. Hush by @finngualart (SaskiaDeKorte) 58. Returned to the Sea by SaskiaDeKorte 59. Flint coloring page by SaskiaDeKorte, colored by me 60. Madi by riisinaakka 61. Longing by riisinaakka 62. Watercolour raven by SaskiaDeKorte

:)

And (doll tw) here's a "before" shot from a while back (I'd changed the curtain and taken down the mirror in between)

#and in case you were wondering yes doing this decoration and making this guide and making this post were all forms of procrastination #in fact I'm going to put this in the tags for the fics I'm supposed to be working on #because if I'm documenting my writing process then I should also show what I do instead of writing. lol #placeholder tag #btsinktt blogging

[mcgravin]

I gave my players an "appendix N" for our upcoming campaign of Heart: the City Beneath. If you've got suggestions to add to the list, shout them out!

“Heart of Darkness” — novel by Joseph Conrad

“Apocalypse Now” — film directed by  Francis Ford Coppola

“Annihilation” — novel by Jeff VanderMeer (as well as the sequels “Authority” and “Acceptance”)

“Roadside Picnic” — novel by Boris & Arkady Strugatsky

“Stalker” — film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

“After a City is Buried” — video essay by Jacob Geller*

“The Shape of Infinity” — video essay by Jacob Geller*

“Carceri d'invenzione” (“Imaginary Prisons”) — series of etching illustrations by Giovanni Battista Piranesi

“The Silt Verses” — podcast created by Jon Ware and Muna Hussen

“Control” — game by Remedy Entertainment

“Fallen London” — game by Failbetter Games

“Hellboy II: The Golden Army” — film directed by Guillermo del Toro

“Crumbling Castle” — song by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard (album “Polygondwanaland”, 2017)

“The Terror” — AMC miniseries, season 1

“WTF 101”, episode “History’s Most Doomed Expeditions” — webseries by Dropout.TV

(* really just about every video essay by Jacob Geller could be on here, but I’ll limit it to just these few)

Is the last item on the list a little too foreboding? Too on-the nose?

The book does have its own appendix of suggested media, and a few items from that made it on here, but I wanted something more personalized and specific to me and my group.

And yes, I put both "Heart of Darkness" and "Apocalypse Now", and Roadside Picnic" and "Stalker" on the list. I feel like in both cases there are enough differences from the book to the movie that both are relevant to my list.

#heart the city beneath #ttrpgs #appendix n #jacob geller #the terror

[foxgirlchainsaw]

Tricketh or treateth

Trick. Go to The Pier With Chains from Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Carceri d'invenzione

#mollymeulin.sms

[themuseumwithoutwalls]

MWW Artwork of the Day (7/16/23) Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778) Carceri #16: The Pier with Chains (1761) Etching, 50.8 x 75.9 cm.

The "Prisons" (Carceri d'invenzione or 'Imaginary Prisons'), is a series of 16 prints produced in first and second states that show enormous subterranean vaults with stairs and mighty machines. These in turn influenced Romanticism and Surrealism. While the Vedutisti (or "view makers") such as Canaletto and Bellotto, more often reveled in the beauty of the sunlit place, in Piranesi this vision takes on a Kafkaesque, Escher-like distortion, seemingly erecting fantastic labyrinthian structures, epic in volume, but empty of purpose. They are cappricci -- whimsical aggregates of monumental architecture and ruin.

[thisblogismyproof]

“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).” - Wikipedia

[mind-palace-at-dusk]

#giovanni battista piranesi #carceri #art #imaginary prisons #carceri d'invenzione

[givreencres]

Part 2 on 2

Today I see an exhibit about a Private Collection dedicated to Venice. And in the last floor, I see this amazing work of drawing;

It's called CARCERI D'INVENZIONE by Giovanni Battista Piranesi also called Piranèse.

1761

#piranesi #piranèse #giovanni battista piranesi #photographer on tumblr #luminar4 #photography #xviii century #prisons #carceri d'invenzione #Les Prisons imaginaires #estampes #drypoint #engravings #aixenprovence

[marcelpioust]

#le carceri d'invenzione #Giovanni battista Piranesi #imaginary prisons #art #sketch #XXVIII century #italian art

[dungeonwave]

‘The Drawbridge’, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1750

#giovanni battista piranesi #carceri d'invenzione #illustration #dungeonwave

[robertsmithsonlibraryandbookclub]

Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club [Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, Carceri D’invenzione, (print folio) 1966] Oil paint on carved wood, 2018

#ART #ARCHITECTURE #GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI #PIRANESI #CARCERI D'INVENZIONE #CARCERI #D'INVENZIONE #FOLIO OF PRINTS #PRINTMAKING #1966 #THIS TITLE IS NOT AVAILABLE #NOT AVAILABLE

[giovanni-battista-piranesi]

The Arch with the Shell Ornament, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, c. 1761, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Prints and Drawings

Plate 11 from Carceri d'Invenzione If the Prisons recall The Phantom of the Opera, it is due to the sublime wonder that overwhelmed Piranesi as he explored the enormous sewers of ancient Rome and to the wonder that later stage designers experienced when exploring and mining Piranesi’s works. They found inspiration in the emotional content of his architecture, its three-dimensional effect, and its complex lighting arrangements. Size: 16 x 21 5/8 in. (40.64 x 54.93 cm) (plate) Medium: Etching

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/52609/

#artsmia #giovannibattistapiranesi #minneapolisinstituteofart #printsanddrawings

[mesillusionssousecstasy]

4:40 pm : "L'Escalier aux trophées", deuxième état Carceri d'invenzione, planche VIII, 1750 " par Giovanni Battista Piranesi, dit Piranèse - Eau-forte et burin - Février MMXVII. 

(© Sous Ecstasy)

#art #art therapy #art daily #art show #art blog #art account #art paris #art of the week #art of the day #art community #art lover #art addict #art work #sous ecstasy #mes illusions sous ecstasy #drawing