giovanni battista piranesi italian archaeologist

His research interests are currently centered on the art of the 16th and 17th centuries and on contemporary art. He has lectured on various historical-artistic disciplines at several universities, in particular at the University of Viterbo.

Prior to these appointments he had established the new Superintendence of Lucca and Massa Carrara. He is Superintendent of Fine Arts of Bologna, Ferrara and the provinces of the Romagna region. Piranesi’s Roman landscapes will be analyzed in order to show the differences existing between the different ways of reproducing images of ancient and modern Rome, the spatial amplifications typical of the reproduction of archaeological monuments in comparison with the contemporary ones, a fact that indicates the artist’s different emotional attachment towards the two worlds.Īrt historian Luigi Ficacci, pupil of Giulio Carlo Argan, works for the Italian Ministry for Culture in the field of conservation of the Italian artistic heritage. This science appears as a powerful fantastic suggestion, based on the longing for a future as magnificent and virtuous such as the one of ancient Rome. Such knowledge is based both on his competence as an architect and on the acquisition of documentary techniques as well as on the experience of archaeological excavations and direct knowledge of their finds. The lecture aims at demonstrating that Piranesi’s representation of ancient Rome’s monuments is based on a completely original archaeological knowledge.

Giovanni battista piranesi italian archaeologist