Edited by Fondazione Giorgio Cini and Factum Arte
Designed by Blanca Nieto based on the italian edition
Published by Caixaforum
With essays by Michele de Lucchi, Guiseppe Pavanello,
John Wilton-Ely, Norman Rosenthal, Adam Lowe and others
Index
Introduction
Pasquale Gagliardi
Giambattista Piranesi’s Trades
Michele De Lucchi
“Architetto veneziano”
Giuseppe Pavanello
“Quella pazza libertà di lavorare a
capriccio”: Piranesi and the creative
use of fantasy
John Wilton-Ely
Giambattista Piranesi
and the Recurring Prisons of Art
Norman Rosenthal
The tragic scene of Ancient Rome
according to Piranesi: an autopsy,
an x-ray, a rebirth
Marcello Fagiolo
Piranesi and the Egyptian taste
Elisa Debenedetti
An atemporal approach to
Piranesi and his designs
Adam Lowe
Gabriele Basilico’s translation of
Piranesi the vedutista
Luigi Ficacci
Catalogue of all etchings