Art June 2020
Exhibition note
On “Piranesi Drawings: Visions of Antiquity” at the British Museum, London.
Editors’ note: Owing to the closure of museums due to the COVID-19 outbreak, exhibition dates and traveling schedules may change.
“Piranesi Drawings: Visions of Antiquity”
The British Museum, London.
February 20–August 9, 2020
It is tormenting that the show of Piranesi drawings at the British Museum should have closed, along with all London’s museums and galleries, soon after it opened, due to coronavirus restrictions. But it is not wholly inappropriate. There is an excellent catalogue, so his great topographical studies can still transport us, as did the engravings that he sold to milordi on the Grand Tour, to Rome. And since Piranesi was an artist of fantasy, it’s...
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