The arts of Piranesi
Subtitle: architect, etcher, antiquarian, vedutista, designer
By: [an exhibition produced by Fondazione Giorgio Cini onlus, Factum Arte ; an original idea of Michele De Lucchi ; curated by Michele De Lucchi, Adam Lowe, Giuseppe Pavanello ; catalogue curated by Giuseppe Pavanello]
Contributors: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778; Istituto di storia dell'arte (Fondazione "Giorgio Cini"); CaixaForum (Madrid, Spain); CaixaForum (Barcelona, Spain); Factum Arte; San Diego Museum of Art
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Giorgio Cini; Factum Arte
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Venezia; Madrid
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9788461576371
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: Piranesi; Architect, etcher, antiquarian, vedutista, designer
Notes: "San Diego, The San Diego Museum of Art, March 2013-July 2013 ; Barcelona, CaixaForum Barcelona, October 2012-January 2013 ; Madrid, CaixaForum Madrid, April-September 2012 ; Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, August 2010-January 2011 "--T.p. verso.

Exhibition originally held at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Pasquale Gagliardi; title: Giambattista Piranesi's trades  -- Michele De Lucchi; title: "Architetto Veneziano"  -- Giuseppe Pavanello; title: "Quella pazza libertà di lavorare a capriccio" : Piranesi and the creative use of fantasy  -- John Wilton-Ely; title: Giambattista Piranesi and the recurring prisons of art  -- Norman Rosenthal; title: The tragic scene of Ancient Rome according to Piranesi :; title: an autopsy, an x-ray, a rebirth  -- Marcello Fagiolo; title: Piranesi and the Egyptian taste  -- Elisa Debenedetti; title: An atemporal approach to Piranesi and his designs  -- Adam Lowe; title: Gabriele Basilico's translation of Piranesi the vedutista  -- Luigi Ficacci; title: Catalogue of all etchings.