User:Lam Truong/Piranese engravings

Piranese engravings: (like Foucault said in his Panopticism ) have mechanisms of tort like Panopticon which presents a cruel, ingenious cage.

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista ,(1720-1778), was an Italian graphic artist and also was famous for his engravings and etchings. He created more than 2000 prints of real and imaginary buildings, statues, and ornaments. One of Piranesi's earliest and most lastingly renowned collections is his Carceri d'Invenzione(Imaginary Prisons, 1745; 2nd edition, 1760), in which he transformed Roman ruins into fantastic, immeasurable dungeons dominated by immense, gloomy arcades, staircases rising to incredible heights, and bizarre galleries leading nowhere. These engravings became an important influence on 19th-century romanticism and also played a role in the development of 20th-century surrealism.