![]() The four Grotteschi are among the most important and inventive of Piranesi’s prints, combining elements of human, cultural, and architectural decay in contexts of deliberate ambiguity, both as to the nature of the objects in each image and their spatial relationships. 359-362 (impressions of Robison state iv, circa 1790) Andrew Robison, Early Architectural Fantasies: A Catalogue Raisonné of the etchings (Chicago & London 1986), pp.115-122 nos. 24-27 John Wilton-Ely, The Mind and Art of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (London 1978), pp.18-20 Dario Succi, Da Carlevarijs ai Tiepolo: incisori veneti e friulani del Settecento, catalogue of an exhibition held at Palazzo Attems, Gorizia, and Museo Correr, Venice, in 1983 (Venice 1983), pp.294-297 nos. Hind, Giovanni Battista Piranesi: a critical study, with a list of his published works and detailed catalogues of the prisons and the views of Rome (London 1922), pp.80-81 nos. Agnew and Sons Ltd., exhibited at the London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy, 11-14 January 1991 - Private collection, Dublin Daumier en très belles impressions de Charivari pièces relatives aux Ballons collection d’estampes révolutionnaires’, auction conducted by Ader Picard Tajan, with the expertise of Denise Rousseau, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13 October 1989, lot 20 (FF 190,000 + premium) - Thos. Piranèse Carceri, vues de Rome importante réunion de lithographies d’H. Breughel… Exceptionnel et rare ensemble de suites de J.B. Provenance anonymous consignor, ‘Estampes des XVIIe au XXe siècle par ou d’après F. In a set of gilt frames by Paul Levi (each 50 × 80 cm). ![]() Plate 396 × 547 mm, state 2 of four (Robison 24). Plate 392 × 554 mm, state 2 of six (Robison 23). Plate 394 × 553 mm, state 1 of five (Robison 22). Plate 395 × 555 mm, state 2 of five (Robison 21). Matching impressions from the second edition, first issue. ![]() Set of four prints in etching, engraving, drypoint, scratching, burnishing. The results are on show in ‘Piranesi on paper’ from 2 December 2022 to 5 March 2023 in Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen and in an online research catalogue.Grotteschi: ‘The Skeletons’, ‘The Triumphal Arch’, ‘The Tomb of Nero’, ‘The Monumental Tablet’ Print curator Mireille Linck was able to undertake the two-year research project thanks to the Erfgoedtalentbeurs (Heritage Talent Fund) of the Mondrian Fund. So this is a rare opportunity to admire Piranesi prints. The works are extremely sensitive to light and highly vulnerable and will only be exhibited for three months, after which they will not be shown for three years because they must ‘rest’. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has, with 751 works, the most extensive collection of Piranesi prints in the Dutch museum world. The research and the presentation not only show the extensive collection of prints by the Italian artist, but also reveal his decisions as living, travelling maker, trader, and his bustling work-place. ![]() Piranesi is the most famous graphic artist of his time and this study project focuses on his world of paper. On 14 November, a start will be made on mounting ‘Piranesi on paper’, the presentation of research into all Piranesi prints in the museum collection. The work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) appears to have become reality in Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen when entering the building, the eye wanders upwards through the maze of the stairways.
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