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03260aam a2200397 i 4500 001 9C0A4BB0403511EB87AA299C42ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201217010015 008 191101s2020 njua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019050162 020 $a 0691206104 020 $a 9780691206103 035 $a (OCoLC)1130380789 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d YDX $d ERASA $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-it--- 050 04 $a Z232.P595 $b Y47 2020 082 00 $a 686.09456/3209033 $2 23 100 1 $a Yerkes, Carolyn, $e author. 245 10 $a Piranesi unbound / $c Carolyn Yerkes and Heather Hyde Minor. 264 1 $a Princeton, New Jersey : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a 229 pages : $b illustrations (chiefly color) ; $c 30 cm 520 $a "One of the greatest graphic artists of any age, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) is best known as the virtuoso etcher responsible for print series such as Imaginary Prisons and Views of Rome. These largescale engravings depict scenes in and around Rome, taken from first-hand examinations of antiquities and classical structures. Piranesi combined these vistas with exaggerated compositions, scale, and perspective, in order to create immense, ambiguous scenes that have inspired generations of artists-Piranesi's 18thcentury biographer named him "the Rembrandt of ruins." But Piranesi was also a gifted and prolific scholar, architect, and designer, who printed and published twelve books over the course of his career. While most of his visual work was created to appear alongside texts that explain his theories of space, architecture, and drawing, their study has historically separated the images from the texts for which they were designed. Co-authored by two leading scholars, this is the first book to examine Piranesi's complete printed volumes and career as a maker of books, and argues that his engravings cannot be fully understood without studying them in the context of the books he designed. Individual chapters examine how Piranesi's drawings and prints became pages, how pages and plates became volumes, how volumes became books, and how books were marketed, sold, and read. Embedded within these essays are several focused explorations of each theme: illustrations with texts designed to explicate aspects of Piranesi's production and distribution"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Layers / by Heather Hyde Minor -- Lost and found / by Carolyn Yerkes -- Pages / by Carolyn Yerkes -- Dedicated and sent / by Heather Hyde Minor -- Bound / by Heather Hyde Minor -- Sold / by Carolyn Yerkes. 600 10 $a Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, $d 1720-1778. 600 17 $a Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, $d 1720-1778. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00030179 650 0 $a Book design $z Rome $z Rome $x History $y 18th century. 650 7 $a Book design. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00836152 651 7 $a Italy $z Rome. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204500 648 7 $a 1700-1799 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 $a Minor, Heather Hyde, $d 1971- $e author. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317022849.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9C0A4BB0403511EB87AA299C42ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search