The contribution investigates the theme of overcoming the limit in Piranesi’s art, examining the subject in three different aspects: the technical, perspective and architectural fields. In the technical sphere, Piranesi went beyond the limit during his incessant experimentation to get the secret of etching to which he aspired. The price he had to pay to achieve the freedom, poetry and freshness of sign, with which he expressed the power, depth and audacity of his imagination, concerned some technical failures found on the copper matrices. His overcoming the limits in the field of perspective is demonstrated by the expedients with which Piranesi skilfully mastered perspective to adapt the composition to his aesthetic and expressive wishes, anticipating and synthesising modern cinematographic techniques in a single image. In architecture, the overcoming of limits can be found in his inventions: in the impossible configurations of the Carceri and the colossal architectural fantasies collected in the Opere varie. Not having the opportunity to devote himself to concrete design practice, Piranesi entrusted his utopias to imagination and drawing.
Il contributo indaga il tema del superamento del limite nell’arte piranesiana, approfondendo l’argomento attraverso tre sue declinazioni: l’ambito tecnico, prospettico e architettonico. In ambito tecnico, il superamento del limite deriva dall’incessante sperimentazione a cui Piranesi si dedica per raggiungere quel segreto dell’acquaforte cui tanto ambiva. Il prezzo da pagare per raggiungere la libertà, poesia e freschezza di segno con le quali esprime la potenza, la profondità e l’audacia della sua immaginazione, riguarda alcuni fallimenti tecnici rintracciabili sulle matrici in rame. Il superamento del limite in ambito prospettico è dimostrato dagli espedienti con i quali Piranesi domina sapientemente la prospettiva per adattare la composizione alle sue volontà estetiche e comunicative, precorrendo e sintetizzando in un’unica immagine alcune moderne tecniche cinematografiche. In ambito architettonico, il superamento del limite si ritrova nelle sue invenzioni: nelle configurazioni impossibili delle Carceri e nelle colossali architetture di fantasia raccolte nelle Opere varie. Non avendo l’opportunità di dedicarsi alla pratica progettuale concreta, Piranesi affida all’immaginazione e al disegno le sue utopie.
Il superamento del limite nell'arte di Piranesi/Beyond the limit in Piranesi's art / Menconero, Sofia. - In: DISEGNO. - ISSN 2533-2899. - 9:(2021), pp. 121-132. [10.26375/disegno.9.2021.13]
Il superamento del limite nell'arte di Piranesi/Beyond the limit in Piranesi's art
Sofia Menconero
2021
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The contribution investigates the theme of overcoming the limit in Piranesi’s art, examining the subject in three different aspects: the technical, perspective and architectural fields. In the technical sphere, Piranesi went beyond the limit during his incessant experimentation to get the secret of etching to which he aspired. The price he had to pay to achieve the freedom, poetry and freshness of sign, with which he expressed the power, depth and audacity of his imagination, concerned some technical failures found on the copper matrices. His overcoming the limits in the field of perspective is demonstrated by the expedients with which Piranesi skilfully mastered perspective to adapt the composition to his aesthetic and expressive wishes, anticipating and synthesising modern cinematographic techniques in a single image. In architecture, the overcoming of limits can be found in his inventions: in the impossible configurations of the Carceri and the colossal architectural fantasies collected in the Opere varie. Not having the opportunity to devote himself to concrete design practice, Piranesi entrusted his utopias to imagination and drawing.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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