Classical ruins and a taste of illuminated parchment
Antiquities & Manuscripts
Engravers beyond Piranesi’s Rome, and a handful of illuminated leaves — see also our sibling shop The Scriptorium for the full manuscript canon.
For the full illuminated-manuscript canon — including the Book of Kells — see our sibling shop The Scriptorium.
The Temple of Neptune at Paestum
Piranesi's last series — Greek columns older than Rome itself.
The Ancient Walls of Rome
Piranesi's own teacher, etching the ruins that trained him.
Ponte Nomentano
Vasi's Rome — an ancient bridge still carrying travelers on the Via Nomentana.
Ruins with the Cumaean Sibyl
A painted capriccio — Roman ruins that never stood together, imagined as one.
Leaf with the Annunciation
A single page from a medieval Book of Hours, gold leaf still catching the light.
Leaf with an Illuminated Initial D
Christ carrying the cross, framed inside a single gilded letter.
The Man on the Rack
The most famous plate in Piranesi’s Imaginary Prisons — architecture that never existed, imagined into terrifying scale.
The Round Tower
A drum tower wrapped in spiral stairways, from Piranesi’s Imaginary Prisons.
The Drawbridge
A raised drawbridge stranding a stairway mid-span, from Piranesi’s Imaginary Prisons.
The Giant Wheel
A colossal wheel-and-pulley mechanism looms over a Roman gatehouse, from Piranesi’s Imaginary Prisons.
The Well
A deep shaft under a crane and rigging, one of the darkest plates in Piranesi’s Imaginary Prisons.