Piranesi etchings

The Museum of Fine Arts in Valencia hosts an exhibition with a large selection of funds by Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), which comes from the collection of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos.

Organized in five sections of engravings, (Carceri d'invenzione, Le Antichità romane, Descrizione e disegno dell'emisario Lake Albano, Albano Antichità e di Castel d', and Vedute di Roma) the exhibition, which is ordered chronologically, let visitors see the works of one of the greatest printmakers of art history.

In these series, the main attraction is, without a doubt, Carceri d'invenzione, a collection of Piranesi etchings in which architectural spaces create some unlikely formed by stairs, vaults and arches that intersect and soar into the infinite, challenging the logical mind and creating dizzying depths of hell. With this prison scenery, Piranesi shows its imagination as architect and proves to be closer to a romantic sensibility than to Neoclassicism. The first edition of Prisons, composed of 14 plates, was performed in 1745. Fifteen years later, Piranesi decided to make a wider edition, which is the owned by the Museum of Fine Arts in Valencia.

Date: until October 2.
Place Museum of Fine Arts in Valencia. St. Pius V, 9. 46010. Valencia (Spain).
Hours: from Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 8pm.