This beautiful publication accompanies an exhibition at the Morgan
Library & Museum of the work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi
(1720–1778). It is the most important study of Piranesi’s
drawings to appear in more than a generation. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. It includes discussion of
Piranesi’s drawings in public and private collections worldwide,
with particular attention paid to the 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. 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. In sum, the
present work offers a new account of Piranesi’s life and work,
based on the evidence of his drawings.
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