![]() ![]() “We think of melancholy today as something that needs to be corrected through pharmaceuticals and talk therapy, but back in the 18th century it was something that people actually sought out, that idea of melancholia.” “It was the picturesque movement and sublimity, the experience of melancholy, which ruins were a part of … creating that kind of sublime moment,” Dodds said. The artist lived in the age of melancholia, where ruins were romanticized and often the subject of artistic works, as Roman artists set out to prove that Rome was the artistic center of the world, rather than Greece. I suspect his home life was less than lovely.” Like any genius who creates a world unto themselves, there’s a lot of wreckage from that. ![]() “He was a little crazy - some would say a lot crazy, and he was a genius, and he created a world unto himself. A prolific creator, he produced more than 1,028 copper plates in his short lifetime, as well as sold prints, either as singular copies or bound in books. Piranesi, who lived from 1720 to 1778, owned a print shop below his home, where he engraved incredibly detailed drawings on copper plates, a medium which does not easily lend itself to the intricacy that Piranesi mastered. 20, aims to teach architecture students about innovative architectural drawing through the work of Piranesi, an 18th century Italian architect, artist and theorist whose work redefining perspective forever solidified him in architectural fame.Īlvin and Sally Beaman Professor of Architecture George Dodds, who has been teaching at UTK since 2000, curated the exhibit, and all but one of the Piranesi works featured hail from Dodds’ personal collection. “Learning from Piranesi: Architectural Representation and Tectonics: An Exhibition Celebrating the 300th Birth Anniversary of Giovanni Battista Piranesi,” an exhibit opening at the Ewing Gallery at UTK on Jan. Today, Giovanni Battista Piranesi continues to influence architectural work - and may even play a crucial role in reckoning with modern changes in architectural understanding. Nearly 300 years ago, one Veneto-born architect radically transformed interpretation of ruins, melancholia and architecture. ![]()
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