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Original works by Giovanni Battista Piranesi available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
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
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
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) NEW! 
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
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
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
The gothic arch, ca.1749-61
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain NEW!
5 prints online
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)
Carceri d'Invenzione, Plate VI, etching, 1745
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
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!
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
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Prisons VII, from Carceri d'Invenzione, Rome, 1761
DePaul University Museum, Chicago
Veduta del Palazzo Stopani
Falmouth Art Gallery, England NEW!
Finnish National Gallery Art Collections, Helsinki, Finland NEW!
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
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"
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)
La Roue géante, suite des Prisons imaginaires, 1749-50
Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia, Spain (in Spanish) NEW!
Vedute di Roma
Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia, Spain (in Spanish) NEW!
Cárcel I
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
National Museum in Warsaw, Poland (in Polish)
See the Flash presentation on the page: rollover + scroll thumbnails
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida NEW!
Veduta dell Areo di Tito (Arch of Titus)
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Italy
4 etchings online
Philadelphia Museum of Art
(Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
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)
Die Treppe mit Trophäen
Giovanni Battista Piranesi at the The British Museum, London, UK
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City NEW!
Antichita Romane, 1756
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City NEW!
8 works online
Vejle Kunstmuseum, Denmark (in Danish)
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK NEW!
Search results for "Piranesi"
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas NEW!
5 works online
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba NEW!
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Giovanni Battista Piranesi in the Art Renewal Center
Artchive
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Temple at Paestum
CGFA
Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Artyzm
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
Seindal Photo Archive
Engravings from Vedute di Roma
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site NEW!
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Miscellaneous Sites:
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
Online Archive of California
Title page from the Carceri
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Giovanni Battista Piranesi 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
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
2 articles on Piranesi
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
Time Magazine
"No artist ever possessed a city more ravenously than Giovanni Battista Piranesi did Rome...", 1972 article by Robert Hughes
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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Piranesi
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Piranesi: The Prisons
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Piranesi: The Complete Etchings
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