![]() ![]() 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).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 (1760–65), 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. Piranesi’s 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 Museum’s collection. ![]() The selection includes some of the earliest drawings in The British Museum’s 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 (1750–55) 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. (London: The British Museum, 1908,0616.10)įor 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 Museum’s collection by the Venetian-born artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778). Giovanni Battista Piranesi, A Classical Forum with Steps and a Column, ca.1748–52, pen and brown ink, grey-brown wash, and red chalk ![]()
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