The painting here however is inscribed on the reverse in the artist’s hand ‘Addington Workshop, Christchurch 43’. In 1940 she showed a work titled Decorative Study, Addington Workshops at the Canterbury Society of Arts. Discover Giovanni Battista Piranesi art at and save on all framed art 100 Satisfaction Guaranteed with our 30-Day Return Policy on all. She also began painting and exhibiting her work.Henderson was drawn repeatedly to gritty, industrial subject matter, which in her earliest exhibited works in 1933 included brickworks, rock quarries, city street views and a painting titled Industry. The next year, she started teaching, part time, design and embroidery classes at Canterbury College School of Art. Louise Etiennette Sidonie Sauze was a Paris-born and trained embroidery designer who moved to Ōtautahi Christchurch in 1925 after marrying New Zealander Hubert Henderson, whom she had met in France. He was knighted in 1766 for his contribution to Italian art. Throughout his career Piranesi devoted himself to engraving the great monuments of Roman antiquity and the Renaissance. He first learned architecture but, when he settled in Rome in 1740, he studied etching under Guiseppe Vasi (1710 -1782), one of the leading illustrators of his time.
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His etchings are considered to be a forerunner of late 18th century Romanticism, with its taste for melodrama and elemental fear, often coupled with picturesque ruins.īorn in northern Italy, Piranesi was the son of a stonemason. He then re-etched them with architectural details and deeper shadows for publication in 1760/1761. Piranesi first sketched the scenes in Venice, possibly as designs for stage sets. Francesco Piranesi (Italian, 1758-1810) 19th centuryetching depicting Roman battle armor, short sword,lance, and a shield.
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They are the most stark and creative images of Piranesi’s graphic work, in which he explored the full potential of the abstract compositional effect of light and shade. This is one of 14 etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi known as the Carceri d’Invenzione (Prisons) set.
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