The Dark Brain of Piranesi, and Other Essays Critical.
In the nineteen-fifties and sixties, she wrote some superb critical essays, several of them spinoffs from “Hadrian,” and gathered them in her collection “The Dark Brain of Piranesi and Other.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) 2 July, 2018 By Darran Anderson. The last of the Ancients and the first of the moderns, Piranesi’s legacy can be felt from the work of Lebbeus Woods and Alexander Brodsky to PoMo and Brutalism. Piranesi 3. Illustration by Jonathan Farr. In 1748, Giovanni Battista Piranesi depicted the Temple of Janus overgrown and in a state of disrepair. Its colossal.
To read her books (in particular the fiction, the essays in The Dark Brain of Piranesi, and two untranslated works of mingled autobiography and family history, Souvenirs pieux and Archives du nord) is like moving along a marble corridor in the wake of an imperturbable guide. The temperature varies between cool and freezing. The lighting is dramatic and uneven. Only the calm and dispassionate.
With Yourcenar’s The Dark Brain of Piranesi and Other Essays, we will consider Hadrian’s enduring influence on architecture as a means of civic engagement. Piranesi’s engravings of ruins fuel the author’s vision of Hadrian’s Rome and our emotional connection with antiquity. Through slide-shows of Piranesi’s work, images of Greek and Roman architecture, and paintings of city views.
An in-depth analysis of Piranesi's Carceri was written by Marguerite Yourcenar in her Dark Brain of Piranesi: and Other Essays (1984). Further discussion of Piranesi and the Carceri can be found in The Mind and Art of Giovanni Battista Piranesi by John Wilton-Ely (1978). The style of Piranesi was imitated by 20th-century forger Eric Hebborn.
Like writers as diverse as William S. Burroughs and Graham Greene, the French novelist and essayist Yourcenar (1903-1987) was fascinated enough by dreams to publish a diary of hers, which has now been.
Marguerite Yourcenar (her pseudonym was an anagram of her family name, Crayencour) was born in Brussels in 1903 and died in Maine in 1987. One of the most respected writers in the French language, she is best known as the author of the best-selling Memoirs of Hadrian and The Abyss. She was awarded many literary honors, most notably election to the Academie Francaise in 1980, the first woman to.