![]() ![]() This lecture by Clare Hornsby in collaboration with Valerie Scott BSR librarian will feature the recently launched initiative of BSR Library and Archive, the Digital Collections website, of which the Piranesi Campo Marzio volume will be a highlight. On Thursday, May 6, the British School at Rome, will host an online lecture exploring Piranesi’s book Campo Marzio di Antica Roma of 1762, its magnificent map, and some of the curiosities of the copy of the volume held in the rare books collections of the library at BSR. Initiatives to celebrate the great artist’s work will resume in Rome in May 2021, accessible online internationally. ![]() The third centenary of Piranesi’s birth struggled to achieve resonance in 2020 due to the pandemic. His influence has been enduring, from Romanticism to the avant-garde movements of the 20th century, up to the present day. An artist, engraver, architect, merchant, intellectual, and polemicist, he was essential in the formation of modern aesthetic sensibility, for the birth of modern archaeology, for the theories of architecture and urbanism. Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Venice 1720 – Rome 1778) was one of the leading figures in 18th-century Italian and European culture. Base of the Antonine Column from Piranesi’s Campo Marzio (Rome, 1762)Ĭlare Hornsby, Piranesi at the BSR: Thomas Ashby’s Curious Campo Marzio ![]()
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