Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Republic of Venice(October 4, 1720 – 1778)

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Piranesi: Rome's Most Magnificent Dreaming Eye

Stand before one of Giovanni Battista Piranesi's etchings of Rome and something happens that rarely occurs in front of a work on paper: the architecture breathes. The stones seem to press forward out of the picture plane, the shadows deepen as you look, and a sense of tremendous, almost vertiginous scale overtakes you. It is no accident that Piranesi's Vedute di Roma, his great series of views of the Eternal City, continues to draw scholars, architects, designers, and passionate collectors to institutions from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at… Continue reading

Print Works on Paper Small Scale Ruins Etching Landscape Brown Tones Paper Italian Detailed Neoclassical 18th Century

Villa Pamphili outside Porta S. Pancrazio, from Views of Rome

1776

View of the Villa d'Este, Tivoli, from Views of Rome

1773

View of the Remains of the Praetorian Fort [the Poecile], Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, from Views of Rome

1770

View of the Small Waterfall and Rapids, Tivoli, from Views of Rome

1769

View of the Villa of His Eminence Cardinal Alessandro Albani, outside Porta Salaria, from Views of Rome

1769

View of the Grand Cascade at Tivoli, from Views of Rome

1766

Another view of the Temple of the Sibyl in Tivoli, from Views of Rome

1761

Giovanni Battista Piranesi — 1. Arch of Titus. 2. Villa Farnese. 3. Columns of the Temple of Jupiter Stator [the Supporter]. 4. Arch of Septimius Severus. 5. Temple of Peace, plate six from Some Views of Triumphal Arches and other Monuments

1. Arch of Titus. 2. Villa Farnese. 3. Columns of the Temple of Jupiter Stator [the Supporter]. 4. Arch of Septimius Severus. 5. Temple of Peace, plate six from Some Views of Triumphal Arches and other Monuments

1748

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