Piranesi artworks series#

Large private collection of antique musical instruments from around the world to be offered at auction Museo Picasso Málaga opens an exhibition of works by Paula Rego World's first Francis Bacon/Adrian Ghenie joint exhibition to debut in Hong Kong in MayĮxhibition at the Städel Museum features Impressionism and the French art of the 18th century

'Indian Textiles: 1,000 Years of Art & Design' in Washington, DC, Closes June 4Īfter 19 years, one of the gold boxes stolen in the Waddesdon raid is recovered, thanks to the Art Loss Register There will be a preferential sales window, closing on 15 May, after which the price of each Super Rare artwork will increase to 3,000 and each Open Edition to 749.įor all existing NFT collectors there will be a private drop on 28 April and a final one on 16 May artworks available to purchase in these drops will not be available in the public sale. All public sale artworks will be dropped by 13 May and the primary sales window will close on 30 June after this point no further sales of these artworks will be made by the British Museum. Three preview artworks will be available to purchase from 25 April with the main drop starting on 2 May. Super Rare and Open Edition artworks will be sold at fixed price, selling for 2,000 and 499 respectively. Ultra Rare artworks will be sold by auction, with a starting price of 4,000. five will be Open Edition (a maximum of 50 editions will be sold with the final edition number set at the end of the primary sales window one edition will be retained by the British Museum). nine will be Super Rare (ten editions, one of which will be retained by the British Museum) and six will be Ultra Rare (two editions, one of which will be retained by the British Museum) The 20 artworks will be sold across three scarcity levels: One such example is Architectural fantasy with monuments, sculpture and ruins (1760-1765) a fantasy scene bringing together a creative selection of different Roman monuments interspersed with figures drawn in miniature to accentuate the grandeur of the landscape. Piranesis drawings were investigative tools for experimentation that explore complex exercises in perspective and spatial representation as well as compelling fantasies. Showcasing a mastery of craft, Piranesi deconstructed classical architecture language and reinvented it through dynamic compositions that animate and exaggerate the space the use of red chalk combined with brown ink is unique in the Museums collection.

Piranesi artworks series#

The selection includes some of the earliest drawings in the British Museums collection relating to his Prima Parte (1743) series of etchings of imaginary temples, palaces and the ruins of Rome.Ī monumental staircase in a vaulted interior with column (1750-1755) is one of the most impressive Piranesi drawings in technique and scale found at the British Museum. Works included in this drop chart the evolution of the artist from early scenographic drawings to his more elaborate fantasy interiors. His exceptional work as a draughtsman is less well known, yet his drawings reveal the evolution of his practice and the relentless experimentation and innovation that underpinned his virtuoso ability with the etching needle. Piranesi is regarded as one of the greatest Italian printmakers of the 18th century, best known for his atmospheric representations of Roman antiquity, and in later years, his celebrated series of fictional prisons, La Carceri. For its latest collaboration with the British Museum, LaCollection has announced a new NFT drop drawn from a selection of 20 pen and chalk drawings from the British Museums collection by the Venetian-born artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778).