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By the 1760s, Piranesi had abandoned both the elaborate curves of late Baroque architecture and the irregular lightness of the Venetian Rococo. His later architectural fantasies play instead with conventional forms of ancient Roman architecture--though combined in new, unconventional ways. In this example, a triumphal arch is approached by a monumental stair and surrounded by a colonnade, an arrangement with no real ancient precedent, although it is a scheme found in numerous drawings by Piranesi. The darker, denser ink of this sketch is found in many drawings from the 1760s and corresponds to the moodier late states of the Carceri and other prints of the time.
Scholz, János, former owner.