Piranest: The Etchings 皮拉内西版画

THE ART OF MAKING BOOKS
TASCHEN's Great Adventure began back in 1980, when eighteen-year-old Benedikt Taschen opened a shop in his native Cologne, Germany, to market his massive comics collection. Within a year he began publishing catalogs promoting his wares, but it wasn't until 1984 that his first art-book breakthrough occurred: he purchased 40,000 remainder copies of a Magritte book printed in English, reselling them for a fraction of their original price. From a young age,Taschen had been interested in art but found that art books were too expensive and hard to obtain, and the success of this daring move proved that Taschen was not alone in thinking that the art-book market should be democratized.
Soon he began reprinting books under his own name for budget prices and the next year he published his first original title and the first book in the Basic Art series: Picasso. Before long, high-quality-yet-still-inexpensive hardcover books were added to the lineup and in 1989 the landmark double-jumbo Van Gogh:
The Complete Paintings hit bookstores around the world.
Starting in the late 1980s, TASCHEN established subsidiaries across the globe and continued to cement its reputation as a publisher of excellent-value books while branching out into new areas such as architecture, design, pho tography, lifestyle and classics. In 2000, TASCHEN surprised the world by breaking the record for the most expensive book published in the 20th century:copy #1 of Helmut Newton's SUMO, signed by over 80 celebrities featured in it,fetched over $300,000 at a charity auction. A year later TASCHEN launched its cinema collection with Billy Wilder's Some Like it Hot. Then, in 2003, TASCHEN tipped the scales with its massive, legendary Muhammad All tribute book, GOAT.
Twenty-five years after Benedikt Taschen opened his little comics shop,TASCHEN has grown into one of the most successful and unique publishers in the global market, publishing an eclectic variety of books for people of all tastes and budget ranges, distributed worldwide in over twenty languages. Within the space of the last few years, TASCHEN has opened bookshops in Paris and Los ngeles, with plans to keep expanding to new cities as our Great Adventure continues. For the future of publishing, keep your eye on TASCHEN.We love to love books.

Introduction: The Discovery of Rome out of the Spirit of Piranesi
Einffihrung: Die Entdeckung Roms aus dem Geiste Piranesi
Introduction : La d4couverte de Rome dans l'esprit de Piranesi
Luigi Ficacci
Etchings. Radierungen Eaux-fortes
Prima Parte cli Architetture e Prospettive
　Part One of Architecture and Perspectives
　Erster Tei] der Architekturen und Ansichten
　Premiere partie d'architectures et de perspectives
Carceri
　Fanciful Images of Prisons
　Phantastische Entwiirfe von Kerkern
　Images fantastiques de prisons
Le Antichita Romane
　The Antiquities of Rome Die Romischen Altertumer Antiquitos romaines
Antichita d'Albano e di Castel Gandolfo
　Antiquities of Albano and ofCastel Gandolfo
　Altertiimer von Albano und Castel Gandolfo
　Antiquites d'Albano et de Castel Gandolfo
Varie Vedute di Paestum
　Different Views of Paestum
　Verschiedene Ansichten von Paestum
　Differentes vues de Paestum
Vedute di Roma
　Views of Rome
　Ansichten von Rom
　Vues de Rome
Biography- Biographie Biographie