The book offers new insights on the explorations of the site, the diverse reactions to it, and their dramatic and enduring effect on architectural thought, as they influenced intellectual debates in England, France, and Italy during the long 18th century. In Rediscovering Architecture, Sigrid de Jong analyzes extensive original source material, including letters, diaries, drawings, paintings, engravings, and published texts, which are attractively reproduced here. Paestum, exceptional in the completeness of its ruins, came to fascinate architects, artists, writers, and tourists alike, who documented the site in drawings and texts. The porous limestone temples with rough, heavy columns were entirely unlike the classical architecture travelers to the site were familiar with. The 18th-century rediscovery of the three archaic Greek-Doric temples in Paestum in southern Italy turned existing ideas on classical architecture upside down. Piranesi Drawings reveals the quality and lasting impact of the pen and chalk studies by a remarkably talented draftsman, as demonstrated by the superb collection at the British Museum. Curator and author Sarah Vowles establishes a clear relationship between his drawings and prints, discusses the involvement of studio hands in his late works, and examines how his style as a draftsman evolved. While many studies are concerned with Piranesi's activities as a printmaker, this beautifully illustrated book examines new dimensions of his art by focusing on his drawings. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the British Museum, this volume explores Piranesi's celebrated skill as a draftsman. The Venetian-born artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) is best known for his dramatic etchings of the architecture and antiquities of his adopted home city of Rome and for his extraordinary flights of spatial fancy, such as Le Carceri ("Prisons"). Together they offer a unique understanding of early Greek classical architecture seen through the work of an 18th-century master.Ī new exploration ofPiranesi's work as adraftsman, publishedto coincide with anexhibition at theBritish Museum. This book offers exquisite reproductions of the drawings as well as 30 additional works from Piranesi's oeuvre. These drawings are accomplished examples of Piranesi's topographical observation and great works of art in their own right. Among Soane's greatest legacies is the London museum that bears his name, and some of its most important holdings are a number of preparatory drawings Piranesi developed for a publication on the Greek temples at Paestum.
When the two artists met, they formed a profound and complex creative and intellectual relationship that nurtured Soane's later career.
Piranesi's English contemporary Sir John Soane was also an architect specializing in the neoclassical style. An 18th-century architect and printmaker, Giovanni Battista Piranesi was a lifelong champion of Rome, publishing more than 1,000 etchings of the Eternal City and its ancient monuments.
A renowned scholar examines the beauty and impact of drawings and prints by Piranesi, as well as the Italian architect's relationship with his friend and colleague Sir John Soane.
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