> #Piranesi combined several etching methods to create a series of sixteen prints of imaginary prisons. Poets and authors have described the artist’s provocative dungeons not as physical structures but nightmarish #PrisonsOfTheMind where endless staircases, unending cloisters, pits, platforms, racks, and chains represent incomprehensible states of guilt and anxiety.
https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/30348
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