Digital Piranesi

The Digital Piranesi website is a project from the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of South Carolina, partially funded through a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. The project makes the engravings of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) freely accessible through the digitization of a complete set of the posthumously published Opere [Works] (1837-9). This set was printed under the direction of his son Francesco by the Didot printing house in Paris and consists of twenty-nine volumes that include over 1000 images. The project aims to make Piranesi’s works “visible, legible, and searchable in ways that the original works are not.