#GIAMBATTISTA PIRANESI PIAZZA NAVONA SERIES#
The exhibition presents two series of works dedicated to the Eternal City: Roman Antiquities (1756) and Views of Rome (1748-1778) in which Piranesi, through the skillful use of lights and shadows, has been able to celebrate the sense of monumental and artistic magnificence of ancient and modern Rome. His celebration of ancient Rome was also of a theoretical nature when, as opposed to Winckelmann’s neoclassicism, he placed the emphasis on the superiority of Roman art over the Greek one.Īncient Roman amphitheatres disintegrated by time, obelisks swallowed by greenery, fantastic and grotesque masks, aristocratic palaces flooded with light, hallucinatory visions of dark and terrible prisons, ruins of spas, bridges and banks of the Tiber, constitute the inexhaustible themes of its extraordinary production of etchings.
Inspired initially by Marco Ricci’s ruined intuitions and assimilated the lesson of Tiepolo and Canaletto, Piranesi gradually transformed his style. Offered by DaMats Fine Art Collaborative. This view of Piazza Navona shows the church of SantAgnese in Agone to the left and, as the centrepiece to this great baroque space, Berninis Fountain of the Four. In his youth he defined himself as a Venetian architect but once he moved to Rome he became famous for his engravings representing classical ruins and ancient monuments. For Sale on 1stDibs - Veduta di Piazza Navona sopra le Rovine del Circo Agonale, Etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. These early impressions, printed in Piranesis lifetime, on heavy Italian paper and before the plates became worn, are particularly prized for their rich, black, deeply-etched line. Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 - 1778), also know as Giambattista, is considered the last great exponent of the eighteenth century Venetian engraving.
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