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 +"Many years ago, when I was looking over Piranesi's ''[[Antiquities of Rome]]'', [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge|Mr. Coleridge]], who was standing by, described to me a set of plates by that artist ... which record the scenery of his own visions during the delirium of a fever: some of them (I describe only from memory of Mr. Coleridge's account) representing vast [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] halls, on the floor of which stood all sorts of engines and machinery, wheels, cables, pulleys, levers, catapults, etc., etc., expressive of enormous power put forth, and resistance overcome. Creeping along the sides of the walls, you perceived a staircase; and upon it, groping his way upwards, was Piranesi himself: follow the stairs a little further, and you perceive it come to a sudden abrupt termination, without any balustrade, and allowing no step onwards to him.---Thomas De Quincey in ''[[Confessions of an English Opium-Eater]]'' (1820)
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[[Image:Antichità Romane.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The [[Appian Way]] as it appeared in [[Giovanni Battista Piranesi|Piranesi]]'s imagination (1756), from ''[[Le Antichità Romane]]''.]] [[Image:Antichità Romane.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The [[Appian Way]] as it appeared in [[Giovanni Battista Piranesi|Piranesi]]'s imagination (1756), from ''[[Le Antichità Romane]]''.]]
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"Many years ago, when I was looking over Piranesi's Antiquities of Rome, Mr. Coleridge, who was standing by, described to me a set of plates by that artist ... which record the scenery of his own visions during the delirium of a fever: some of them (I describe only from memory of Mr. Coleridge's account) representing vast Gothic halls, on the floor of which stood all sorts of engines and machinery, wheels, cables, pulleys, levers, catapults, etc., etc., expressive of enormous power put forth, and resistance overcome. Creeping along the sides of the walls, you perceived a staircase; and upon it, groping his way upwards, was Piranesi himself: follow the stairs a little further, and you perceive it come to a sudden abrupt termination, without any balustrade, and allowing no step onwards to him.---Thomas De Quincey in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1820)

The Appian Way as it appeared in Piranesi's imagination (1756), from Le Antichità Romane.
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The Appian Way as it appeared in Piranesi's imagination (1756), from Le Antichità Romane.

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Antichita Romanae[1] (1748) is a series of prints by Italian artist Piranesi of real and fictitious Roman ruins, inspired by the late Baroque works of Claude Lorrain and Salvatore Rosa who had featured romantic and fantastic depictions of ruins; in part as a memento mori or as a reminiscence of a golden age of architecture. Piranesi's reproductions (see right) were a strong influence on Neoclassicism.

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Title page: Roman Antiquity of the Time of the Republic and the First Emperors (Antichità Romane de' Tempi della Repubblica, e de' primi Imperatori).[2]

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