The Well
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- 16 x 21 11/16 in. (40.64 x 55.09 cm) (plate)
- Genre
Tags
Italy
About
The 1700s are known as the Age of Enlightenment, but a strong undercurrent of irrationality persisted. These conflicting impulses caused a collision between the international humanitarian call for prison reform and those architects who drew from Piranesi their inspiration for ever more intimidating institutional buildings.
![View of the Remains of the Two Rows of Columns in the Temple of Neptune which [originally] formed the colonnades along the sides of the cella, and supported the uppermost part of the roof, from Different views of Paestum](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/8092a9e9-0207-fa0a-389c-e545e4a33c5f/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
