Giambattista Piranesi
First learned of Giambattista Piranesi through a GearSlutz thread. Here is what one of the posts stated:
“The XVIII century Italian artist Giambattista Piranesi was famous for his philosophy of “carceri d’invenzione” (invention prisons), which basically said that in order to achieve true artistic freedom, the artist would have to build his own creative prison first and then only work within such confinement.”
