Piranesi meaning4/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), Opere Varie di Archiettura, c.1749–1750. If not a direct representation of the Collegio, its scale and curved, concentric form certainly echo the plan. It was, however, published alongside a drawing of a grand port, Parte di ampio magnifico Porto (below) in Opere Varie di Archiettura, in which a majestic circular, colosseum-like building appears at once to be both descending from the heavens and rising from the billowing smoke of the city. The plan’s enigma is heightened by the fact that it is the only known articulation of this project. The title, Collegio, therefore seems like a disguise for a mysterious unknown. The plan is certainly vast and magnificent yet its functionality is far less evident than its grandeur. The circular, centralised plan describes a complex spatial arrangement with a grand, almost scaleless, civic quality that matches the full title of the work, Pianta di ampio magnifico Collegio (Plan of a Spacious and Magnificent College). Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), Pianta di ampio magnifico Collegio, c.1748–1751. ![]() Particularly intense in this respect is the plan for Piranesi’s project Collegio Romano. They offer an escape into imagined and unknown worlds each drawing an organism of its own, containing an immense depth of spatial layering and an extraordinary sense of scale that ventures unerringly towards the sublime. Melting reality, ancient history and fantasy into one, the etchings of Giovanni Battista Piranesi hold an unparalleled allure that continues to entrance and captivate. ![]()
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