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Patricia H. Labalme Friends of the Library Lecture - Piranesi Connoisseurship: The AAR’s Special Copy of the Antichità d’Albano (1764) - Andrew Robison on Piranesi

For centuries Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s magnificent etchings and books have been the most influential images of ancient Roman architecture, both in fact and in fantasy. They were so much desired, and so many copies of Piranesi’s works have flooded the world that it is hard to sort out which ones are actually the closest to what their author wanted, and the best as works of art. The American Academy in Rome has one of the finest copies of Piranesi’s fundamental 1764 book on the antiquities of Albano.

On Tuesday, February 9, Andrew Robison, a prominent Piranesi scholar and the now-retired senior curator of prints and drawings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, will situate our copy of the Antichità d’Albano in Piranesi’s broader work and reveal the special qualities of this copy.

Feb 9, 2021 06:00 PM in Rome