Date of Award
2018
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Department
Art
Sub-Department
College of Arts and Sciences
First Advisor
Lydia Mattice Brandt
Abstract
This thesis aims to elucidate points that remain problematic in the scholarship of the imaginary prisons and to position Carceri d’Invenzione embedded in Piranesi’s evolving line of works. My focus was on Piranesi’s intellectual aspirations for the illustrations and the way in which they reflect Piranesi’s theoretical and philosophical inclinations. I was interested in finding a proper correlation between the illustrations of imaginary prisons and the artist’s intellectual development with the objective to provide the work with a coherent view in tandem with Piranesi’s modus operandi. I associated the imagery of the imaginary prisons and Piranesi’s references to specific places and historical and contemporary events in the illustrations to specific eighteenth-century debates encompassing taste, law, and the Greco-Roman controversy.
Rights
© 2018, Helen B. K. Marodin
Recommended Citation
Marodin, H. B.(2018). Unlocking Piranesi’s Imaginary Prisons. (Master's thesis). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/4896