SH Archive What was Giovanni Battista Piranesi trying to say. 17-18th century apocalypse?

[KD Archive]

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (4 October 1720 – 9 November 1778) was an Italian artist famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" (Le Carceri d'Invenzione). He was a so called Cappricio artist.

In other words, contemporary interpretation of his creations is that it was a fantasy of the author. There is no historical evidence that Capriccio artists were making stuff up. To me, such an interpretation appears to be a very convenient way to explain the inconvenient truth.

There were multiple artists creating similar work. Engravings and paintings reflecting our world in ruins. To name a few of hose artists:

• Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691 – 1765)
• Alessandro Salucci (1590 – c. 1655-60)
• Marco Ricci 1676 – 1730)
• Luigi Rossini (1790 - 1857)

There were many more of the so called Capriccio artists working within the same time frame. They observed the same objects in a very similar manner. It is so easy to dismiss the evidence by pretending that their creations were a work of fiction. What if they reflected exactly what was observed?

What do we see in those paintings and engravings? We see semi destroyed buildings, mud and dirt filling in spaces between those buildings. We do not see pavement or some sort of hard surface between the structures. I would imagine that people capable of building such structures were capable of quality work all the way around. And of course in their works we see small to medium size trees growing on those buildings and in places where should be no trees. Based on the size of those trees we could approximate when those trees started.

Possible causes.

Was it the Great Flood of the 17-18th century?
Could it be the result of the war of Gods?
Could it be the consequences of the Global War of the previous spin of the human civilization?

There are many other additional weird events, coincidences, circumstances and straight up ridiculously overlooked and misinterpreted occurrences. Some of those I will try to bring to the attention of a hopefully open-minded examiner.

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[Skydog]

I came across this graph in a mainstream finance article comparing current historically low Italian bond yields vs history over the past ~700 years.

“As this chart from Deutsche Bank shows, the yield on the Italian 10-year is lower than it was even before Italy became a country. Deutsche Bank strategist Jim Reid attached proxies for Italian debt, such as from Naples, to chart pre-1861 data. (There is also a gap in the data series for the 1700s.)”

The gap in the 1700s data series fits pretty nicely with Piranesi’s catastrophe drawings.

 

[Vikkibee]

I came across this graph in a mainstream finance article comparing current historically low Italian bond yields vs history over the past ~700 years.

“As this chart from Deutsche Bank shows, the yield on the Italian 10-year is lower than it was even before Italy became a country. Deutsche Bank strategist Jim Reid attached proxies for Italian debt, such as from Naples, to chart pre-1861 data. (There is also a gap in the data series for the 1700s.)”

The gap in the 1700s data series fits pretty nicely with Piranesi’s catastrophe drawings.

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Also the 1700 gap fits in with my gut feeling of nothingness at some point in the last 300 years. Ie at some point there was a gap when perhaps the earth or parts of it were uninhabited, perhaps it was the last reset.

 

[TommelBommel]

Let's put it this way ... I'm 100% sure (but I will not do that here in detail) that our historical timeline has been constructed.
What Battista had drawn could have been part of his personal experiences - of course with an artistic note.

Here are some of the earliest fotos of Rome, most of the pictures are from Robert Turnbull Macpherson.

 

[ViniB]

Let's put it this way ... I'm 100% sure (but I will not do that here in detail) that our historical timeline has been constructed.
What Battista had drawn could have been part of his personal experiences - of course with an artistic note.

Here are some of the earliest fotos of Rome, most of the pictures are from Robert Turnbull Macpherson.



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That's a level of destruction similar, to me at least, of the places struck by "great fires"