Esther M. Lederberg HMS Fellowship
Piranesi's Prisons
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Pironesi's Prisons: one etching
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Pironesi created many etchings of prisons. The angles, and immense size of prisons, with images of tortured people are intended to be disorienting. What might have led Pironesi to imagine such dark images?
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