June 2021

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Photo by Antonio Palmieri

The June 2021 display was based around the volume Il Campo Marzio dell’Antica Roma which forms the subject of a separate highlight essay and digital volume on this website, research undertaken for the 300th anniversary by Clare Hornsby and launched to accompany the Piranesi@300 international conference which BSR hosted with partners the Centro di Studi sulla Cultura e l’Immagine di Roma, the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma and the Académie de France Villa Médicis. The selection has been expanded in order to show some etchings from the main Piranesian print series – the Vedute di Roma and the Antichità Romane, especially focussing in the latter case on images with interesting epigraphic content, considering issues such as the invasion of Piranesi’s visual field with text, both ancient inscriptions and his own descriptive captions and interventions.

June 2021

Photo by Antonio Palmieri

The June 2021 display was based around the volume Il Campo Marzio dell’Antica Roma which forms the subject of a separate highlight essay and digital volume on this website, research undertaken for the 300th anniversary by Clare Hornsby and launched to accompany the Piranesi@300 international conference which BSR hosted with partners the Centro di Studi sulla Cultura e l’Immagine di Roma, the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma and the Académie de France Villa Médicis. The selection has been expanded in order to show some etchings from the main Piranesian print series – the Vedute di Roma and the Antichità Romane, especially focussing in the latter case on images with interesting epigraphic content, considering issues such as the invasion of Piranesi’s visual field with text, both ancient inscriptions and his own descriptive captions and interventions.