[HN Gopher] Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Perpetual Provocateur ___________________________________________________________________ Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Perpetual Provocateur Author : prismatic Score : 15 points Date : 2023-04-21 21:06 UTC (2 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.nybooks.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.nybooks.com) | Daub wrote: | I teach drawing. When demonstrating perspective, he is my go to | guy. For one of my exerciss ask the students to redraw a Pirenesi | as a sci Fi book jacket cover. | Jenz wrote: | I returned many times to the Piranesi exhibition in my town | showing, among other things, his imaginary prisons. It took me | embarassingly many hours to realize the staircase together with | the colums in number XIV forms an impossible object / optical | illusion. I wonder how much else I missed. | addaon wrote: | Sheds some light on the Susanna Clark novel of the same name. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-04-23 23:00 UTC)