The Serpent and the Stylus: Essays on G. B. Piranesi (Supplements To The Memoirs Of The American Academy In Rome) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0472115847 ISBN 13: 9780472115846

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 2007

Synopsis

Piranesi was an architect, engraver, antiquities restorer and dealer, draftsman, archaeologist, furniture and fireplace designer, author, and bookseller. His creations in paper and in stone garnered considerable renown in his own lifetime, allowing him to transform himself from a penniless son of a stonemason to a wealthy entrepreneur. However, despite attempts to catalogue and analyze his work, little is known about Piranesi. Since Henri Focillon published his monograph on the artist in 1918, scholars have sought to expand his interpretive strategies used to examine Piranesi and his work. This volume is a representative sampling of the contemporary scholarship on Piranesi, with each essay scrutinizing a particular aspect of his oeuvre. By engaging with material found in eighteenth-century manuscripts and printed materials, as well as the texts and images Piranesi produced, the nine essays by esteemed contributors add to the rapidly growing and diversifying field of eighteenth-century studies. The outcome is a volume that will add to the expanding, glittering mosaic of Piranesi’s life and his work.

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Mario Bevilacqua is Associate Professor at the University of Florence, Italy.

Heather Hyde Minor is Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Fabio Barry is Assistant Professor at the American University of Rome, Italy.

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About the Author:

Mario Bevilacqua is Associate Professor at the University of Florence, Italy. Heather Hyde Minor is Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Fabio Barry is Assistant Professor at the American University of Rome, Italy.

Review:

"The contributors offer a fresh view of Piranesi, one that not only serves to capture an ephemeral 'state of the question,' but should also redirect subsequent research in new and productive channels." - John Pinto, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University"

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0472115847
• ISBN 13: 9780472115846
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Minor Heather Hyde, Bevilacqua Mario, Barry Fabio