![]() Rome was the artist's greatest source of inspiration, reflected in many of his works. Escher, for example, was a great admirer, but so too were the surrealists, and writers such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edgar Allen Poe, Jorge Luis Borges and Franz Kafka.īelow a map op Rome with various works of Piranesi highlighted. These imaginary spaces that seem to have no end inspired many other artists - M.C. Piranesi’s most celebrated prints are the ‘Carceri’ (dungeons or prisons). The ‘Vedute di Roma’, his famous print series with impressive views of Rome, are also incorporated in this presentation in an interactive online map of the city. These etchings were published as series and in books of prints. More than a thousand individual etchings were produced, which is an average production of 2.3 prints a month. He produced an enormous number of etchings, particularly during the last thirty years of his life. Giovanni Battista Piranesi was a multi-faceted artist, trained as architect and an outstanding printmaker and trader. The results are on show in ‘Piranesi on Paper’ in Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen and in an online research catalogue. Curator of Prints Mireille Linck was able to undertake the two-year research project thanks to the Erfgoedtalentbeurs (Heritage Talent Fund) of the Mondrian Fund. So this is a rare opportunity to admire Piranesi prints. The works are extremely sensitive to light and highly vulnerable and will only be exhibited for three months, after which they will not be shown for three years because they must ‘rest’. ![]() Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has, with 751 works, the most extensive collection of Piranesi prints in the Dutch museum world. The research and the presentation not only show the extensive collection of prints by the Italian artist, but also reveal his decisions as living, travelling maker, trader, and his bustling work-place. The timeless Carceri etchings of Piranesi (1720-1778) represent not only spectacular artistic accomplishments but also unforgettable expressions of. Piranesi is the most famous printmaker of his time and this study project focuses on his world of paper. ![]() ‘Piranesi on Paper’ is a presentation of research into all Piranesi's prints in the museum collection. The work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) appears to have become reality in Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen when entering the building, the eye wanders upwards through the maze of the stairways. The source of inspiration for Escher and Kafka is also recognisable in the steps of the depot building itself. In sum, the present work offers a new account of Piranesi’s life and work, based on the evidence of his drawings.Presentation in the depot of new research demonstrates productive burst by eighteenth-century Italian artist Piranesi. ![]() The most comprehensive study of Piranesi’s drawings to appear in more than a generation, the book includes more than 200 illustrations, and while focused on the drawings it offers insights on Piranesi’s print publications, his church of Santa Maria del Priorato, and his work as a designer and dealer. Large surviving groups of drawings in New York, Berlin, Hamburg, and London it also puts the large newly discovered cache of Piranesi material in Karlsruhe in context. It includes discussion of Piranesi’s drawings in public and private collections worldwide, with particular attention paid to the More than merely an exhibition catalogue or a study of the Morgan’s Piranesi holdings, however, this publication is a monograph that offers a complete survey of Piranesi’s work as a draftsman. These works form the core of the book, which will be published on the occasion of the Morgan’s Spring 2023 exhibition of Piranesi drawings. The Morgan Library & Museum holds what is arguably the largest and most important collection of these works, more than 100 drawings that include early architectural caprices, studies for prints, measured design drawings, sketches for a range of decorative objects, a variety of figural drawings, and views of Rome and Pompeii. While Piranesi’s lasting fame is based above all on his etchings, he was also an intense, accomplished, and versatile draftsman, and much of his work was first developed in vigorous drawings. In a letter written near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi explained to his sister that he had lived away from his native Venice because he could find no patrons there willing to support “the sublimity of my ideas.” He resided instead in Rome, where he became internationally famous working as a printmaker, designer, architect, archaeologist, theorist, dealer, and polemicist. It is the most important study of Piranesi’s drawings to appear in more than a generation. This beautiful publication accompanies an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum of the work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778).
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