Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Grand Piazza, plate IV, from the series Carceri
Etching and engraving with ink-dabbing
1749 - 1760
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art: Picturing the Past: Piranesi to Pearlstein
As early as the Renaissance, the study of famous works of art of the Greek and Roman civilizations was
an essential part of an artists education. The city of Rome was an important destination for anyone who
...
National Gallery of Art: The Unfinished Print: Works by Rembrandt, Piranesi, Degas, Munch and Others
The exhibition opens in conjunction with Jasper Johns: Prints from Four Decades and American
Naive Paintings, which will be on view during the same period in adjacent galleries.
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Museum of Fine Art Houston: Art of Rome in the 18th Century
In the 18th century, Rome's civic and religious leaders
commissioned exceptional artists from throughout Europe to
construct and embellish churches, palaces, fountains, public
...
Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona: Requiem for the Staircase: Curated by Architect Oscar Tusquets
Professor Juan
Antonio Ramirez has selected a few very important paintings and drawings
representing the entire history of art, in which each of the stairways has
been represented by great artists. These are accompanied by film footage
and lit...
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University: The Changing Garden: Four Centuries of European and American Art
The Changing Garden presents nearly 200 works—prints, drawings, paintings, and photographs—by more than 100 artists. The exhibition includes great names from art history, such as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Jean-Honoré Fr...
Frick Collection: When is a Work of Art Complete: Prints by Rembrandt, Piranesi, Degas, Munch and More
In the process of printmaking, an artist will normally take proof impressions as he makes changes to his plate. These proof states, as will be apparent through many groupings in the exhibition, can establish an exact record of the image in the pr...
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford: Enclosed and Enchanted
United by an interest in architecture and how the outside world can be reconfigured in the context of the gallery, these artists examine the duality in man-made, yet natural, spaces. The result is a kind of double enclosure, in which the appropria...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Splendor of 18th-Century Rome
A strong sense of their city's cultural centrality encouraged Rome's 18th-century civic and religious leaders to construct or embellish numerous churches,
palaces, fountains, public plazas (piazze), gardens and gallerie...
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen: Paul Noble: No accidents, only mistakes
No accidents, only mistakes
The city has been designed and built on ruins by invisible citizens demonstrating a ‘knock-it-down-and-start-again-spirit’. It reveals the influence of the Garden City Movement on twentieth century town planning, ...
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: Triumphs of the Baroque: Architecture
in Europe, 1600-1750
The Baroque style was born in Rome about 1630 and spread throughout Catholic
Europe, then in a state of upheaval brought about by divisive religious conflicts.
The Europe of the Hapsburgs was threatened by the rise of...
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