Album 2
arrow left swipe to the left Visible reflectance photograph Verso of the thirty-second sheet, Album 2 activate zoom zoom tool
Leaf 32 verso activate zoom zoom tool
Visible reflectance photograph Two architectural fantasies, fragment of a stucco ceiling, door panel activate zoom zoom tool arrow right swipe to the right
activate zoom zoom tool Leaf 33

Works on this double page

  • Visible reflectance photograph Architectural fantasy with bridges and triumphal arches, drawn with pen and wash in brown over black chalk
  • Visible reflectance photograph Chalk and graphite drawing of a quarter circle piece with Victories, Bucrania and vine decorations from the stucco ceiling in the staircase of the Palazzo dei Conservatori
  • Visible reflectance photograph Black chalk drawing of an axisymmetrical ornamental field with vine volutes and lion figures from the door panel in Raphael's loggias
  • Visible reflectance photograph Washed pen and ink drawing of a architectural fantasy with a view into a monumental vaulted palace or church room
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Album 2, Leaf 33

The last used leaf in the album has a surprise in store for the viewer: two architectural fantasies –capricci – by Piranesi himself. For us today, these rank among the highlights of the Karlsruhe Piranesi drawings, but for Weinbrenner they were evidently of mere secondary importance while compiling the albums.

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