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Widely reproduced since, the Carceri went on to influence Romantic and Surrealist artists drawn to their theatrical, dreamlike sense of confinement. This impression is a first-state print from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) was an architect by training who became the greatest etcher of Rome. His Vedute di Roma sold to every visitor on the Grand Tour, but it is the Carceri d'invenzione — imaginary prisons of staircases, chains and vaults that lead nowhere — that fixed his reputation, printed first around 1749 and reworked more darkly in the 1760s. His plates shaped the Romantic idea of ruin and scale. His etchings are held by the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Rijksmuseum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. 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