The Morgan Library & Museum shows Piranesi's drawings
Sublime Ideas
Many would consider it arrogant to call your own ideas »sublime«. In Piranesi's case, perhaps you are more ambivalent: His drawings and sketches are evidence of an architectural understanding that pays tribute to the Italian etcher's self-chosen attribute. Beginning March 10, The Morgan Library & Museum shows why Piranesi's self-praise was justified.
March 10, 2023
While The Morgan Library & Museum owns the largest collection of Giovanni Battista Piranesi's (1720 – 1787) drawings, it is also assembling other rarely shown loans from various private collections for the occasion. Beginning March 10, the New York institution highlights the slight but justifiable arrogance that resonates in Piranesi's self-articulated words of the »sublimity of his ideas.« Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi is a solo show that examines the architectural etching talent from Italy from a drawing perspective for once.
Piranesi's figurative depictions of Rome or Pompeii bear witness to historical views on urban planning as well as to his precise imagination. The public also gets to see his early architectural capricci, studies for prints, scale design drawings, and sketches for a number of decorative objects from the museum's own collection in the exhibition. An accompanying publication completes the picture of Piranesi's graphic work. The show ends on June 4.
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