Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Views of Rome: The Tomb, called La Connocchia

1776 · etching and engraving

Views of Rome: The Tomb, called La Connocchia, Piranesi, 1776 — Piranesi, Views of Rome: The Tomb, called La Connocchia, 1776. etching and engraving.
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of Salmon P. Halle

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Find the figures first. Then look at how big the architecture has become because of them.
Follow the gradient on the largest plane. It never bands.
Look at his skies: broken, directional lines, never flat hatching.

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Plate copy
Piranesi
The Tomb, called La Connocchia
Piranesi, 1776: a plate copy from an etched line
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