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Reception and Gallery Talk for 'PIRANESI: Selected Etchings from the Collection of Bruce W. Frier'

Date: 1/12/2005; 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Location: Osterman Common Room, 0520 Rackham Building, 915 E. Washington, Ann Arbor
Host Department: Institute for the Humanities

Bruce W. Frier, Classical Studies and Law

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Eighteenth-century master engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi demonstrated the yearning for classical antiquity felt in an era in search of its own lost greatness among the ruins of Ancient Rome. Arches undulate, perspectives twist, foliage inhabits and animates cold stone thresholds like ghosts and spirits. Piranesi's later work alludes to the beginnings of modernism and abstraction, and reflects the dramatic shifts taking place intellectually in Europe at the threshold of the modern era.

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