Imaginary Prisons: Piranesi's Carceri
Thursday January 16, 1997 - Friday March 7, 1997
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Carceri, 1760, etching (F. 27) (photo: Phil)
These large etchings, from a set of sixteen that Piranesi first produced in 1744, were among the first to explore hallucinatory perspectives in visionary architectural subjects.