Throughout the piece, the music maintains its gripping intensity and bombastic quality, creating a scene appropriate for the hyper-emotional phantasms of Piranesi's mind.ĭuration: ca. This melody is continually revisited and transformed throughout the piece, appearing in various cannons, chorale harmonizations, and levels of rhythmic augmentation and diminution, as well as moving throughout the different registers and instruments of the orchestra.
It opens with an ostinato in the lowest instruments of the orchestra, over which a jagged melody enters, played by four horns. Having influenced artists and writers from Victor Hugo to Aldous Huxley, Le Carceri captured my attention as a fascinating and terrifying source of inspiration, providing the basis for an orchestral tone poem.Ĭarceri d'Invenzione unfolds as a nightmarish psychological drama, depicting the various moods and affects associated with Piranesi's work. The Pier with a Lamp, from Carceri dinvenzione (Imaginary Prisons) (etching (print) Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 172017. Among the details are stone towers, stairwells, animal and human sculptures, pulleys, ropes, chains, drawbridges, and faint silhouettes of human figures. GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI (1720-1778) Staircase with Trophies, Plate VIII from: Carceri d'Invenzione etching, circa 1749-50, watermark Fleur-de-Lys in single Circle, a fine, bright and luminous, early impression of the first state (of five), First Edition, first or second Issue, before signature and number, with wide margins, a hard horizontal central crease mainly visible in the margins.
#CARCERI D INVENZIONE PIRANESI SERIES#
In the mid 1740s, Italian artist and aspiring architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi completed a remarkable series of etchings known today as Le Carceri d'invenzione, or "Imaginary Prisons." Like the works of Francisco Goya some decades later, they are sepulchral and moody in nature, depicting intricate scenes of vast prison structures whose architectural complexities transcend the limits of physical possibility.
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