![]() These imaginary spaces that seem to have no end inspired many other artists - M.C. Piranesi’s most celebrated prints are the ‘Carceri’ (dungeons or prisons). The ‘Vedute di Roma’, his famous print series with impressive views of Rome, are also incorporated in this presentation in an interactive online map of the city. These etchings were published as series and in books of prints. More than a thousand individual etchings were produced, which is an average production of 2.3 prints a month. He produced an enormous number of etchings, particularly during the last thirty years of his life. Giovanni Battista Piranesi was a multi-faceted artist, trained as architect and an outstanding printmaker and trader. The results are on show in ‘Piranesi on Paper’ in Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen and in an online research catalogue. Curator of Prints Mireille Linck was able to undertake the two-year research project thanks to the Erfgoedtalentbeurs (Heritage Talent Fund) of the Mondrian Fund. So this is a rare opportunity to admire Piranesi prints. The works are extremely sensitive to light and highly vulnerable and will only be exhibited for three months, after which they will not be shown for three years because they must ‘rest’. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has, with 751 works, the most extensive collection of Piranesi prints in the Dutch museum world. The research and the presentation not only show the extensive collection of prints by the Italian artist, but also reveal his decisions as living, travelling maker, trader, and his bustling work-place. Piranesi is the most famous printmaker of his time and this study project focuses on his world of paper. ![]() ‘Piranesi on Paper’ is a presentation of research into all Piranesi's prints in the museum collection. The work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) appears to have become reality in Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen when entering the building, the eye wanders upwards through the maze of the stairways. The source of inspiration for Escher and Kafka is also recognisable in the steps of the depot building itself. Now the Armenian church of S.Presentation in the depot of new research demonstrates productive burst by eighteenth-century Italian artist Piranesi.
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