Sublime Ideas

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

John Marciari

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English

Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd
01 May 2023

Art & design styles: Baroque; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections

"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 patronsthere 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.

AUTHOR: John Marciari is the Charles W. Engelhard Curator of Drawings and Prints and curatorial chair at the Morgan Library and Museum.

170 colour illustrations"

By: John Marciari
Imprint: Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 280mm, Width: 240mm,
ISBN: 9781913645380
ISBN 10: 191364538X
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 May 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

John Marciari is the Charles W. Engelhard Curator of Drawings and Prints and Curatorial Chair at the Morgan Library & Museum.

Reviews for Sublime Ideas: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

"""And at the Morgan Library, the curator John Marciari has assembled ""Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi,"" supplementing the museum's celebrated cache of Piranesi drawings with important loans. These efforts do much to explain his remarkable staying power and the current relevance of even his loopiest creations.""-- ""New York Review of Books"""