The Skeletons
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The Skeletons[1][2] is one print from the Grotteschi (ca. 1748), a set of four prints by Italian engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi.
- "In The Skeletons, the light, sketchy strokes of varying lengths found in some areas of the print recall Tiepolo's technique, while the combination of skulls, vegetation, and crumbling ruins, as well as the ambiguity of the subject, are characteristics shared with Tiepolo's Scherzi (1976.537.19) and Capricci series."[3]
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![[1]](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giovanni_B._Piranesi_-_The_skeletons_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg){kind=link}
![[2]](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Skeletons_LACMA_M.65.46.1.jpg){kind=link}