This annotation was created by Michael Andrew Gavin. The last update was by Helen B. Kampmann Marodin.
The Digital PiranesiMain MenuAboutThe Digital Piranesi is a developing digital humanities project that aims to provide an enhanced digital edition of the works of Italian illustrator Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778).Works and VolumesGenres, Subjects, and ThemesBibliographyGlossary
Ornamental motifs
12021-07-05T08:17:46-07:00Michael Andrew Gavined74a11860d5f5eedf6744c94c4ef7d6e8390e76228495plain2021-07-20T12:06:46-07:00Helen B. Kampmann Marodin057612e7fc4f8728b1dcdf23e7ab160b2ebfb68fFragments of an entablature with Egyptian motifs at the top cornice reveals Piranesi's adherence to the philosopher Giambattista Vico's ideas on the origins of Italic civilization. Vico postulated that the “true stone architecture” remotely descended from a lineage that came from the East and followed to Egyptians and then Etruscans, which means the exclusion of Greece on the formation of ancient Rome.
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1media/piranesi-2M-vol08-002_thumb.jpg2021-07-05T07:34:11-07:00AnonymousCarceri Plate II1media/piranesi-2M-vol08-002.jpgplain2021-07-05T07:34:13-07:00Michael Andrew Gavined74a11860d5f5eedf6744c94c4ef7d6e8390e76