BOOKS ON THE ARTIST GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI
Wilton-Ely, John. PIRANESI, The Complete Etchings. 2 vols.; volume I: 612 pp., with 558 b&w illustrations; volume II: 652 pp., with 476 b&w illustrations and 95 text figures. Large 4tos, cloth. San Francisco, Alan Wofsy, 1994.
A catalogue raisonné; first illustrated edition of the complete work with concordances to Focillon, Hind, Calcographia and Robison.
Item nr. 31089
$ 350.00
Robison, Andrew. GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI: The Early Architectural Fantasies. A Guide to the Exhibition. 76 pages, including approx. 10 b&w illustrations. 8vo, wraps. Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1978.
Item nr. 107692
$ 35.00
Bevilacqua, Mario and Mario Gori Sassoli (editors). The Rome of PIRANESI: The Eighteenth-Century City in the Great Vedute. Text by numerous authors; 296 pp., fully illustrated in b&w and color. 4to, wraps. Rome. Museum del Corso, in association with Rome, Editoriale, Artemide s.r.l., 2006.
This substantial exhibition catalogue features a number of in-depth, scholarly essays on various aspects of Piranesi's career, and a wide selection of drawings, copperplates, and etchings of 18th century Rome. Many of the early engravings come from the collection of the Dukes of Wellington, and are previously unpublished.
Item nr. 122957
$ 80.00
Lawrence, Sarah (editor) et al.. PIRANESI as Designer. 360 pp., fully illustrated in color and b&w. 4to, cloth. New York, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, 2007.
Accompanies an exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt, and the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands.
Item nr. 125626
$ 60.00
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista.
Veduta delle Villa Estense in Tivoli.
Rome, 1773.
Etching on laid paper. 1st state.
Sheet size: 21 3/8 x 30 3/8 in.
Plate size: 18 5/8 x 28 in.
Framed size: 26 1/8 x 35 3/8 in.
Item nr. 131031
$ 7,500.00
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