[HN Gopher] Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Perpetual Provocateur
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       Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Perpetual Provocateur
        
       Author : prismatic
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2023-04-21 21:06 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | Daub wrote:
       | I teach drawing. When demonstrating perspective, he is my go to
       | guy. For one of my exerciss ask the students to redraw a Pirenesi
       | as a sci Fi book jacket cover.
        
         | Jenz wrote:
         | I returned many times to the Piranesi exhibition in my town
         | showing, among other things, his imaginary prisons. It took me
         | embarassingly many hours to realize the staircase together with
         | the colums in number XIV forms an impossible object / optical
         | illusion. I wonder how much else I missed.
        
       | addaon wrote:
       | Sheds some light on the Susanna Clark novel of the same name.
        
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