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Colin Holden on Piranesi's 'View of Cardinal Albani's Villa'

Speaker(s): Dr Colin Holden

  • Date recorded: 27 Mar 2014

  • Duration: 03:19

'the gardens of aristocratic villas were important areas in their own right'

- Dr Colin Holden

About this video

Italian 18th-century master-printmaker Giovanni Battista Piranesi was famous for his images of classical and baroque Rome. This 11-part video series reveals the details and meaning behind the figures depicted in prints featured in the Library's 2014 exhibition, Rome: Piranesi's vision.

In this video, exhibition curator Dr Colin Holden discusses how Piranesi’s marriage to the daughter of a gardener may have influenced his inclusion of ground staff amongst the well-to-do visitors in this print of Cardinal Albani’s villa.

Watch the other videos in this series:

Speakers

Dr Colin Holden is a historian, curator and author. He was awarded the Redmond Barry Fellowship in 2010 to research the majestic works of 18th-century Italian printmaker Giovanni Battista Piranesi and the associated 2014 State Library exhibition, Rome: Piranesi's vision.