Giovanni Battista Piranesi - Finestre sull'Arte

Piranesi's Rome in the Views of the National Gallery of Umbria: a fine exhibition

In front of their eyes the imposing and threatening mass of the Alps, in their hearts the longing for the eternal Urbe, in their minds the images they saw at home while leafing through Piranesi's Views of Rome. We can imagine them this way, the trave...
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Piranesi's Prisons are on display in Cesena: sixteen engravings from a private collection

The Galleria del Ridotto in Cesena is hosting Piranesi. Carceri d'invenzione, an exhibition dedicated to the Carceri by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Mogliano Veneto, 1720 - Rome, 1778) that runs through April 13 and displays iconographic nucleus compo...
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