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Notice (permalien)

Réf.

41497

Type

conference item

Titre

The building of a symbolic image : the juxtaposition of Giambattista Piranesi’s "Vedute di Roma" with photographs taken 250 years later

Langues

English

Auteurs

Langenbach, Randolph

Date

2008

Pages

10 p.

Titre de conférence

16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Finding the spirit of place – between the tangible and the intangible’

Lieu de conférence

Québec, Canada

Date de conférence

29 sept – 4 oct 2008

Mots-clés

spirit of place / photographs / photographic surveys / historic buildings

Pays mentionnés

Italy

Monuments et sites

Roma, Italy

Personnalités

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (architect, archaeologist and engraver, 1720-1778)

Résumé en anglais

This paper discuss the making of, The Piranesi Project, a Stratigraphy of Views of Rome, a slide-video showing the engravings of Giambattista Piranesi juxtaposed with photographs of the same views today. When artists interpret and present views of historic sites in their works, the best of them can contribute to the “spirit of place” experienced at the sites themselves if their work becomes known and endures over time. Piranesi is indisputably such an artist. The creation of digital photographs of the same views as Piranesi’s famous Veduta revealed a great deal about how Piranesi composed his images in ways that can be difficult to see any other way – showing both his uncanny accuracy in rendering the monumental ruins, while also showing how he managed both to isolate and highlight the essence of each place – essentially creating a single image that so fully captured each place that this image has often remained imbued on people’s consciousness across generations.

Ressource intégrale

yes

Document joint

77-WmG9-291.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)