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Digital Piranesi @digitalpiranesi.bsky.social · 26d

The Sublime Dreams of Piranesi, a new gallery + commentary at Romantic Circles, is up at romantic-circles.org/gallery/exhi...

An imaginary view of fantastical architecture around an ancient circus

An interior architectural view if a ruined building with botanical overgrowth

An imaginary prison with multiple, and impossible, staircases and levels

Interior of an ancient tomb with tourists, grave-robbers, and a long caption

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Digital Piranesi @digitalpiranesi.bsky.social · Apr 2

Please fight to protect the NEH, whose support made The Digital Piranesi, and jobs (in fields like advertising and cybersecurity) for former team members, possible! p2a.co/1gzPVYl

URGENT: Save the NEH

I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here.

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Digital Piranesi @digitalpiranesi.bsky.social · Nov 20

A Piranesi comment on the #Xodus, in Campus Martius, title pg and Rear View of Pantheon: from X to sky

Altered close-up of an “X” from title page of Piranesi’s Campus Martius, with stippled interior and horizontal etching lines as shadows

Sky between ruins in background of a view of the Pantheon

Digital Piranesi @digitalpiranesi.bsky.social · Nov 19

Piranesi’s on the cover of the latest Studies in Romanticism, a special issue on digital humanities. The contents look just as grand!

Black snd white image on front cover of Studies in Romanticism, with one-armed statue, overgrown ruins, and smoke rising over distant columns

Back cover with contents listed over darkened image, showing gesturing figures before an ancient inscription

Digital Piranesi @digitalpiranesi.bsky.social · Nov 13

Piranesi’s “Gothic Arch” from Imaginary Prisons. Stairs ascend between the walls that meet, impossibly, at the arch’s point. #18c #architecture

Stairs and walkways in fantastical architecture

Close-up of illusion: an arch formed by walls that can’t meet

Digital Piranesi @digitalpiranesi.bsky.social · Nov 11

Piranesi’s The Well (Il pozzo), from Imaginary Prisons (Carceri d’invenzione): chatter and gesticulation among torture devices

Black and white etching of subterranean prison with staircases, torture devices, and gesturing people

Close up of two sets of gesturing people

Digital Piranesi @digitalpiranesi.bsky.social · Nov 9

Please add: account about printmaker Giovanni Battista Piranesi & dh project

Digital Piranesi @digitalpiranesi.bsky.social · Nov 9

Please add! Posts about a dh Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) project.

Digital Piranesi @digitalpiranesi.bsky.social · Nov 8

Prisoners on a Projecting Platform (Gruppo di prigionieri sotto un grande arco), details and full image, from Piranesi’s Imaginary Prisons

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Digital Piranesi @digitalpiranesi.bsky.social · Nov 7

Torture, a theme for November. The Man on the Rack from Piranesi’s Carceri d’invenzione.

Close-up of a man on the rack in black and white etching

Copperplate etching of torture scene in odd architectural space. The Man on the Rack from Piranesi’s Carceri d’invenzione.

Digital Piranesi @digitalpiranesi.bsky.social · Oct 31

Happy Halloween from vol. 2 of Piranesi’s Antichità Romane.

Etching of ancient tomb with skeleton in casket

Digital Piranesi @digitalpiranesi.bsky.social · Oct 31

Halloween scenes from Piranesi’s Carceri d’invenzione (Imaginary Prisons) #halloween

Etching of prison scene with torture implements

Etching of prison scene with prisoner and torture implements

Etching of prison scene with torture implements, close-up

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Digital Piranesi @digitalpiranesi.bsky.social · Oct 28

Sky in Piranesi’s Veduta di un Sepolcro creduto di Scipioni, Antichità Romane vol. 2.

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Digital Piranesi @digitalpiranesi.bsky.social · Oct 31

More Halloween tomb-raiding from Piranesi’s Antichità Romane

Ancient Roman tomb depicted in black-and-white etching

Close-up with two men pointing at human remains and architectural details

Close-up with rubble and a grand tourist

Close-up of a skull and other human remains

Digital Piranesi @digitalpiranesi.bsky.social · Oct 31

Happy Halloween from Piranesi & an 18c excavation of an ancient Roman tomb (Antichità Romane, vol 2) #eighteenthcentury #Rome

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