Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in contracts

in contracts

with a three-quarters view of its face

was developed from the study of the dead lion

Offering an in-depth look at the Gray Collection’s drawings

create gorgeous artwork

Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in contractsIn a letter written near the end of his life, 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." He resided instead in Rome, where he because internationally famous working as a printmaker, designer, architect, archaeologist, theorist, dealer, and polemicist. While Piranesi's lasting fame is based above all