Giovanni Battista Piranesi (17201778) {*style:<a href=' Modo col quale furono alzati i grossi Travertini, e gli altri Marmi nel fabbricare il gran Sepolcro di Cecilia Metella, oggi detto Capo di Bove (The means by which the large travertine blocks and other marbles were lifted in the construction of the Great Tomb of Cecilia Metella, today called Capo di Bove): From Antichità Romane, 1756 Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778) Etching, plate 53 of Antichità Romane, vol. 3, first edition Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library, 1941 (41.71.1.3.53) "I need to produce great ideas, and I believe that if I were commissioned to design a new universe, I would be mad enough to undertake it.
" This statement by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, reported by one of his early biographers, in many ways sums up the man whose dreams of antiquity so often surpassed reality, from his earliest etchings of architectural fantasies to the fanciful restorations of ancient remains that he produced at the end of his career. Escher. Dali le grand parano aque. Des paysages anthropomorphiques. La trahison des images - René Magritte. Markus Raetz. Velice Varini. Liu Bolin. Georges rousse. Philippe Ramette. Kumi Yamashita. Tim Noble & Sue Webster. Colette Hyvrard. Les hommes dans les draps - Alain Fleischer. Jean-François Rauzier.