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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

[Italian Neoclassical Engraver, 1720-1778]

• Also known as:  Giambattista Piranesi
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Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!
Prisons VII, from Carceri d'Invenzione, Rome, 1761

Giovanni Battista Piranesi at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Round Tower, 1749-50
Round Tower, 1749-50

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana   NEW!

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
An Ancient Port, 1749
Studies of Four Figures, 1760

Giovanni Battista Piranesi at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Palace interior: two flying Fames crowning a figure, pen and ink drawing

Giovanni Battista Piranesi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
The Round Tower, etching, 1749-60 (Zoom)

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City  
15 works online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Drawings collection online

Giovanni Battista Piranesi at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
12 works by Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Giovanni Battista Piranesi at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Temple at Paestum, ca.1770-78

Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)  

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
3 prints online

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide   NEW!
The gothic arch, ca.1749-61

Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin
The Gothic Arch, from the Carceri d'Invenzione [Imaginary Prisons], 1749-50

Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
Doorways to the Forum of the Royal Palace

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)   NEW!
Carceri d'Invenzione, Plate VI, etching, 1745

Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, California

Carlos Museum at Emory University, Georgia
View of the Flavian Amphitheater, called the Colosseum

Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand   NEW!
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York City
Info about a 2007-08 exhibition: "Piranesi as Designer"

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire   NEW!

DePaul University Museum, Chicago
Veduta del Palazzo Stopani

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

Giovanni Battista Piranesi in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan

Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
(Note: Click the TITLE to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)

Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
"Piranesi: Engravings from the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia, Spain"

Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)  
La Roue géante, suite des Prisons imaginaires, 1749-50

National Museum in Warsaw, Poland (in Polish)  
See the Flash presentation on the page: rollover + scroll thumbnails

Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Italy
Architectural Capriccio

Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Italy
4 engravings from Views of Rome

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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The Giant Wheel

Pomona College Museum of Art, California
Click on "View objects by this artist"

Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago

Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)  
Website for a 2001 exhibition

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)  

The British Museum, London, UK   NEW!

Vejle Kunstmuseum, Denmark (in Danish)  

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)   NEW!  

Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Carceri design - V

 
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi in the Art Renewal Center

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Masterscan feature: Temple at Paestum

CGFA  

Web Gallery of Art  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

Artyzm

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  

California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web  

Seindal Photo Archive
Engravings from Vedute di Roma

University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
Other Web Sites:
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation

Online Archive of California
Title page from the Carceri

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

Apollo Magazine   NEW!
2 articles on Piranesi

  
 
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Carceri VII, 1760
Carceri VII, 1760


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Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Drawing of an Imaginary Prison
Drawing of an Imaginary Prison


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Winged Lionesses
Winged Lionesses


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Campidoglio Antico
Campidoglio Antico


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View of the Porto Di Ripetta
View of the Porto Di Ripetta


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Roman Statues
Roman Statues


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Roman Statues
Roman Statues

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