bs2> #Piranesi is.. responsible for one of the uncanny echoes that reverberate through the history of #opioids. The artist’s work was of great interest to #ArthurMSackler, the patriarch of the dynasty behind America’s twenty-first-century #OpioidEpidemic. Sackler assembled one of the most important collections of the artist’s work, noting: ‘Piranesi’s genius will long be celebrated. His was an epochal achievement, a unique vision of what was to come…’ #AmitavGhosh in #SmokeAndAshes #SacklerDynasty
> #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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