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Manuscripts
Throughout her working life
rather than leaves from a fully realized manuscript
the dense and dynamic preparatory studies for his paintings
The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of history
Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi ManuscriptsIn a letter written near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 1778) explained to his sister that he had lived away from his native Venice because he could find no patrons there willing to support "the sublimity of my ideas." He resided instead in Rome, where he because internationally famous working as a printmaker, designer, architect, archaeologist, theorist, dealer, and polemicist. While Piranesi's lasting fame is based above all