Peter Murray considers an exhibition of work by contemporary artists that celebrates the inspirational Italian, Giovanni Battista Piranesi
I n the history of European art, there are outstanding talents –Van Dyck, Chardin, Vermeer and Constable among them – whose work transcends time and place. A printmaker very much at home in this group is Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), whose engravings of imaginary prisons, first published in Rome in 1745 as Carceri d’invenzione, remain as compelling today as when they first appeared.
John P O’Sullivan investigates painterly values and pitfalls with Donald Teskey, ahead of his mid-career survey at the RHA
