The Man on the Rock, c. 1761
Giovanni Battista Piranesiexpand_more
Etching and engravingexpand_more
The Martha T. Wallace Memorial Fund, 1930expand_more P.11,326
Not on Viewexpand_more
Piranesi added this plate and plate V to the series in 1761, when he was reworking the original fourteen plates. The two new plates reflect his increasing familiarity with the art of Roman antiquity, which played a much more prominent role in these new images. Here, amid a profusion of sculptural reliefs, he makes the torture of a prisoner absolutely explicit.
Details
- Title
- The Man on the Rock
- Artist Life
- Italian, 1720–1778
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- P.11,326
- Provenance
- Erbach-Erbach family, Schloss Erbach Hofbibliothek, Erbach (Odenwald), Germany. F. H. Bresler Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisc.
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Hind prisons 02 i/ii, F.25, Robison 43 v/vi
- Curator Approved
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