Piranesi drawings : visions of antiquity : drawings from the British Museum / Sarah Vowles ; preface by Hugo Chapman.

The Venetian-born artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) is best known for his dramatic prints of the architecture and antiquities of his adopted city of Rome, and for the extraordinary flights of spatial fancy in his series 'Le Carceri' (Prisons). But he was also an astonishingly talented dr...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: British Museum (Host institution)
Other Authors: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 (Artist)
Vowles, Sarah (Contributor)
Chapman, Hugo (Writer of preface)
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Thames and Hudson, [2020]
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Physical Description:144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 x 25 cm
Format: Book

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