[Statue]

Piranesi, Francesco, 1756-1810 · 1781 · [Rome ; F. Piranesi] · 19 pictures

A 1781 Rome publication by Francesco Piranesi, son of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, catalogued under the subject of ancient Greek and Roman statues and held by the Getty Research Institute. The four pictures are faint, ghostly impressions of single standing figures and a fragmentary carved form printed on blank sheets, with almost no line detail visible. A designer could take from them the quiet, washed-out tonal effect of pale ink impressions and the way a single figure sits centred on an empty page.

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 · Statues · Sculpture, Greek · Sculpture, Roman

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