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Exploring Rome: Piranesi and his contemporaries

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This catalogue accompanied an exhibition held at the Centre Canadien d'Architecture / Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, 17 August 1993 - 2 January 1994. The exhibition was limited to the collections at the Morgan Library and the Canadian Centre for Architecture, with a few loans from collectors closely associated with both institutions. It originated and was first shown, without a catalogue at the Morgan Library in 1989.

Catalogue by Cara D. Denison, Myra Nan Rosenfeld, and Stephanie Wiles.

Contents:
Foreword / Phyllis Lambert and Charles E. Pierce, Jr. --
Exploring Rome / Cara D. Denison and Stephanie Wiles --
Roman Architecture in the Time of Piranesi, 1740-1776 / Elisabeth Kieven --
Giovanni Battista Piranesi / John Wilton-Ely --
Rome Transformed / Myra Nan Rosenfeld --
Color Illustrations --
Catalogue of the Exhibition.

243 pages, Paperback

First published September 21, 1993

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About the author

Cara Dufour Denison, born 1938, is Curator Emerita in the Department of Drawings & Prints at the Morgan Museum and Library, New York, USA.

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