The Man on the Rack
- Medium
- Etching and engraving
- Dimensions
- 22 1/16 x 16 3/8 in. (56.04 x 41.59 cm) (plate)
- Genre
Tags
Italy
About
Piranesi added this plate and plate V to the series in 1761, when he was reworking the original fourteen plates. The two new plates reflect his increasing familiarity with the art of Roman antiquity, which played a much more prominent role in these new images. Here, amid a profusion of sculptural reliefs, he makes the torture of a prisoner absolutely explicit.
![Temple of Jupiter Tonans [Jupiter the Thunderer]. 1. Temple of Concord, plate 7 from Some Views of Triumphal Arches and other Monuments](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/0921b08b-69e6-49a6-6952-a9a71013448b/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
