Comments on: Piranesi, etc.

Piranesi, etc.

misteraitch — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 13:56:06 -0800

The Works of Giovanni Battista Piranesi: high-resolution scans of all of Piranesi's etchings. Also, the plates from Les Ruines De Pompei by François Mazois (1812-38), and, the complete 9-volume Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte (The Antiquities discovered in Herculaneum) published in Naples from 1755-62. Also, at the same site (UT-PICURE: the Center for Research on Pictorial Cultural Resources, at The University of Tokyo), images from the Stibbert Collection of Japanese costume.

By: nlindstrom

nlindstrom — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:49:34 -0800

Beautiful pictures in Les Ruines De Pompei. Thank you for posting this!

By: languagehat

languagehat — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:53:51 -0800

Wow—talk about embarras de richesse! I don't know if I'll manage to extricate myself from the Piranesi to give the rest the consideration they deserve. I particularly like the map of Rome that accompanies the first. Magnificent post!

By: Haruspex

Haruspex — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:35:20 -0800

I've always been in awe of Piranesi. There's something almost disturbing about his meticulousness; like Flaubert's God, passionately indifferent, missing nothing and ceding not one iota in the transference of sight to representation.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 16:31:46 -0800

I think I'm going into overload. This is too much. The Stibbert helmets are especially double plus good. Thank you very much misteraitch.

By: jouke

jouke — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 18:02:27 -0800

Piranesi's cellars have a dream-like quality. Nice high-res pictures. Best of the web.

By: rbf1138

rbf1138 — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 20:08:01 -0800

Having spent summer 2004 doing field work in Pompeii, this was particularly enlightening and incredible to peruse. Thanks!

By: grabbingsand

grabbingsand — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 05:09:44 -0800

I missed this yesterday! I love Piranesi ... thank you.

By: peacay

peacay — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 09:16:54 -0800

Oh damn. Double damn actually. Damn good post misteraitch. And damn!! I only just saw mention of this on thingsmag and the bloody Piranesi site is now borked. Actually, only the landing page, the intro page on Piranesi and the costume images seem to be alive. I'll have to try again later. Are they better quality than the Australian University collection? I hope so - although they have large files I was a bit disappointed whenever it was I last saw them - a couple of months ago.

By: peacay

peacay — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 09:29:42 -0800

Oops...I take that back. The Piranesi link is back up.

By: peacay

peacay — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 09:39:48 -0800

..was back up. I saw some thumbnails. *sigh*.

By: misteraitch

misteraitch — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 00:14:00 -0800

PK: damn! is right—it’s still not working for me today. I didn’t get to spend very long there myself, but quality-wise the images seemed as good as the ones you posted at Bibliodyssey recently from the Heidelberg site: not necessarily larger than the Australian University collection, but certainly clearer. Plus, this Tokyo site, provided it comes back up, seems to be admirably well-indexed and fully complete.