The symposium is devoted to the drawings of the artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) and takes place in conjunction with the exhibition Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi on view at the Morgan from March 10 through June 4, 2023 and is presented by the Morgan Drawing Institute.

Piranesi’s Process: Drawings for the Prisons and other Early Works
John Marciari, Curatorial Chair, Morgan Library & Museum

Piranesi’s Drawings of Views
Andrew Robison, former Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art

Drawing Piranesi’s ‘Speaking Ruins’
John Pinto, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University

Held Friday, June 2, 2023.