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To celebrate the launch of our exhibition Piranesi’s Paestum: Master Drawings Uncovered, the Soane is proud to bring you the accompanying exhibition book, Piranesi Paestum & Soane, beautifully produced in hardback with full colour pictures and illustrations. This newly reprinted and updated book by John Wilton-Ely examines Soane’s extensive collection of Piranesi’s work which Soane incorporated into his theatrical displays at his Lincoln’s Inn home, connecting Piranesi’s own dramatic visions of Paestum with his revivalist architectural practice.
Architect and printmaker, Giovanni Battista Piranesi was a lifelong champion of Rome, publishing more than 1000 etchings of the Eternal City and it's ancient monuments. When Sir John Soane and Piranesi met they formed a profound and complex, creative and intellectual relationship that nurtured Soane's later career. Among Soane's greatest legacies are the preparatory drawings Piranesi developed for a publication on the Greek temples at Paestum.
This book has been republished to coincide with the launch of our major exhibition, Piranesi’s Paestum: Master Drawings Uncovered. Piranesi’s series of drawings of the three great Doric temples in the former Greek colony of Paestum are amongst the most significant examples of European graphic art held in the Museum’s collection. For the first time these powerful drawings are to be shown together in a focused exhibition which will look at them as great works of art in their own right as well as well as examining how they revolutionized architects' and artists' understanding of early Greek Classical architecture. Published in hardback.
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