Guercino: Virtuoso Draftsman Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) explained

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) explained to his sister that he had lived away from his native Venice because he could find no patrons there willing to support "the sublimity of my ideas

While Piranesi's lasting fame is based above all on his etchings

Accompanying the sixth and most significant exhibition of the Thaw Collection at the Morgan

National Book Award-winning author Ron Chernow examines the forces that made dynasties like the Morgans

The rich illuminations are idiosyncratic in their content

Guercino: Virtuoso Draftsman Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) explainedGuercino: Virtuoso Draftsman offers a comprehensive exploration of the artists graphic work, ranging from his early genre studies and caricatures, the dense and dynamic preparatory studies for his paintings, and to the highly finished chalk drawings and landscapes that were ends in themselves. Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino (15911666), was arguably the most interesting and diverse draftsman of the Italian Baroque era, a natural