The marriage of Venice and Rome : what makes Piranesi great [videorecording] / [lecture by] Andrew Robison ; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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The marriage of Venice and Rome : what makes Piranesi great [videorecording] / [lecture by] Andrew Robison ; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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Lecturer Andrew Robison, the Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., examines aesthetic themes throughout Piranesi's work to see what makes Piranesi great, first in the context of Roman printmaking and then in wider fields of art. Robison explains how Piranesi united artistic elements from both Venice and Rome into a new visual language characterized by a creative use of the past.

1 videodisc of 1 (DVD) (ca. 70 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

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