Piranesi's Paestum: Master Drawings Uncovered

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Event has passed (Wed Aug 19, 2015 - Mon Jan 4, 2016)
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Arts, Museums, Fine Arts Museums

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The exhibition presents 15 stunning drawings by the celebrated Italian printmaker, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778). Regarded as landmarks of 18th-century Italian Basilicadrawing, this suite of large-scale renderings constitutes Piranesi’s most extensive body of work devoted to a single topographical site. The drawings depict the three ancient Greek temples at Paestum, south of Naples.

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Cantor Arts Center
328 Lomita Dr
Palo Alto, CA
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  1. Cantor Arts Center
    328 Lomita Dr, Palo Alto, CA