The symposium is devoted to the drawings of the artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) and takes place in conjunction with the exhibition Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi on view at the Morgan from March 10 through June 4, 2023 and is presented by the Morgan Drawing Institute.
Piranesi’s Process: Drawings for the Prisons and other Early Works
John Marciari, Curatorial Chair, Morgan Library & Museum
Piranesi’s Drawings of Views
Andrew Robison, former Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art
Drawing Piranesi’s ‘Speaking Ruins’
John Pinto, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University
“Ornaments drawn to perfection“: The Rediscovery of Nicolas François Daniel Lhuillier, Draughtsman for Piranesi and his Contemporaries
Georg Kabierske, Ph.D. student, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
Piranesi’s Architectural Drawings
Mario Bevilacqua, Professor of the History of Architecture, Sapienza University of Rome
Francesco Piranesi, a Draughtsman indistinguishable from his Father?
Christoph Frank, Professor, Academy of Architecture, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano
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Image: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), Perspective of massive piers and arches, ca. 1742-1743, with later retouching, Pen and brown ink, gray and brown wash, over black chalk, on paper, 7 3/16 x 9 11/16 inches (183 x 246 mm). Bequest of Junius S. Morgan and gift of Henry S. Morgan. 1966.11:16