圆形塔楼，出自“Carceri d'invenzione”（想象中的监狱） - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	圆形塔楼，出自“Carceri d'invenzione”（想象中的监狱）
品名（英）	The Round Tower, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)
入馆年号	1937年，37.45.3(27)
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	Giovanni Battista Piranesi【1720 至 1778】【意大利人】
创作年份	公元 1744 - 公元 1755
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	页: 24 13/16 x 19 1/2 英寸 (63 x 49.5 厘米) Plate: 21 7/16 x 16 5/16 英寸 (54.5 x 41.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	皮拉内西是威尼斯人，二十岁时去了罗马，并在那里度过了余生。罗马是他大部分蚀刻版画的灵感来源和主题，这些蚀刻画的数量超过一千幅。皮拉内西学习建筑，工程和舞台设计，他的第一个建筑计划反映了他的训练与古典罗马建筑的巨大影响相结合。描绘监狱的十四幅图版——可能是皮拉内西最著名的系列——在扉页上被描述为"反复无常的发明"。这些结构，低视角和矮小的数字所强调的巨大，来自舞台监狱而不是真实的监狱。意大利的实际监狱是小地牢。该系列的所有图像中都充斥着空间异常和模糊性;它们不是为了合乎逻辑，而是为了表达皮拉内西在考虑罗马建筑时所经历的广阔和力量。大约十年后，皮拉内西对这些印版进行了重新设计，并在该系列中添加了两幅新图像。重新设计的铭牌更加黑暗和复杂，增加了细节和铭文。虽然很难在该系列的第一种状态中找到意义，但第二种状态明确提到了罗马共和国时期的司法制度以及某些皇帝众所周知的残酷行为。
介绍（英）	A native of Venice, Piranesi went to Rome at age twenty and where he remained for the remainder of his life. Rome was the inspiration for and subject of most of his etchings that number over a thousand. Piranesi studied architecture, engineering and stage design, and his first plans for buildings reflect his training combined with the tremendous impact of classical Roman architecture. The fourteen plates depicting prisons - probably Piranesi's best-known series - were described on their title page as ‘capricious inventions.’ These structures, their immensity emphasized by the low viewpoint and the diminutive figures, derive from stage prisons rather than real ones. Actual prisons in the Italy were tiny dungeons. Spatial anomalies and ambiguities abound in all the images of the series; they were not meant to be logical but to express the vastness and strength that Piranesi experienced in contemplating Roman architecture. About ten years later, Piranesi reworked these plates and added two new images to the series. The reworked plates are even darker and more complex, with added details and inscriptions. While it is hard to find meaning in the first state of the series, the second state includes explicit references to the justice system under the Roman Republic and to the cruelty for which certain emperors were known.