He also worked for the Venetian etcher Zucchi. He initially apprenticed to his mother’s brother, an established architect and hydraulic engineer but disagreements led him to leave and work for stage designers Ferdinando Bibiena and the Valeriani brothers. Giovanni Battista Piranesi was born at Mogliano just north of Venice (1720) the son of an Istrian master builder. ![]() Its origin almost certainly lies in early 18th century Venetian opera stage designs, which used an Italian technique known as scena per angolo that incorporates multiple perspectives from several diagonal axes to open up 3D space with dramatic effect. It is one of a series of 14 drawings ‘capricious inventions’, which Piranesi radically reworked into darker, more complex pieces. This mysterious, macabre etching is the product of a fertile and probably febrile imagination. You will soar through immense, pointless, never-ending, supernatural architecture and plunge diagonally past sinister machinery of cables, pulleys and levers, where diminutive human figures remain doomed to climb endless staircases, trapped without hope by sinister yet ill-defined terrors. Your magical mystery tour through Piranesi’s ‘dark brain’ will last 11 minutes 40 seconds and take you on ‘a restless pursuit through a series of conflicting illusions, interweaving lines, contradictory hatchings and visual paradoxes’. The great Pablo Casals will play JS Bach’s Cello Suite 2 in D minor whilst you watch Grégoire Dupond’s 3D film Carceri d’Invenzione. ![]() Turn up the volume or put on your head/earphones and listen. Open your pc, tablet or smart phone (the bigger the screen the better) and click on this hyperlink.
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