Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Great Regulars: A Piranesi fireplace has much more going on:

human faces and nude figures, satyr masks, lions, eagles, griffins, snakes, boars' heads, sphinxes--everything crammed together, none of the [Robert] Adam restraint. [Giovanni Battista] Piranesi thought architecture would just die if the architect was not free to invent and combine as he wished.

from James Fenton: The Guardian: The structure beneath

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