The Arts of Piranesi, on view at the San Diego Museum of Art until July 7. 1450 El Prado, Balboa Park, 619-232-7931; sdmart.org You can’t always get what you want, and you can’t always ...

Piranesi’s sublime fantasies did not emerge from nothing – he followed a tradition of dramatic backdrop designers who rendered beautifully observed perspective drawings as the settings for operas and ...

Virtuosic and turbulent, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 - 1778) was a visionary printmaker, architect, antiquarian and dealer. These varied aspects of his career were based on his practice of ...

In 1777, Italian printmaker and architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi visited the ancient Greek city of Paestum on the Gulf of Salerno, creating a series of ...

Opening Wednesday night at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art is the exhibition “Piranesi/ Shiota: Prisons of the Imagination,” which presents a thrilling juxtaposition of etchings by 18th century ...

The current show at the Morgan is different. On its walls are hung 15 good-sized drawings (all about 24” x 36”) made by Piranesi, in the year before his death, of the relatively well-preserved ...

A 19-year-old intern working at Karlsruhe State Museum, Germany found out that hundreds of drawings attributed to Weinbrenner were actually by Piranesi.

Vik Muniz. "Carcere VI, the smoking fire (after Piranesi Prison)" (2002). Ed. 1/6. Unframed Dimensions: 91.7 in. x 69.7 in/ (233 cm. x 177 cm). This exact same edition sold for US$36,000 premium at ...

Piranesi drawings: visions of antiquity is an exhibition planned by the British Museum now due to open early in 2021. Susanna Clarke's novel Piranesi is out now.

Art and Antiques; In Focus: Piranesi, the architect, artist and engraver whose fantasy buildings won him 300 years of fame. In the 300th anniversary year of Piranesi’s birth, Huon Mallalieu considers ...