19 August - 4 January 2016, Cantor Arts Centre, 328 Lomita Drive, Stanford.

A major exhibition of Giovanni Battista Piranesi's last master works - 15 exquisitely rendered drawings made in 1777 of three ancient Greek temples in Paestum, southern Italy - opens at the Cantor Arts Center on August 19.Piranesi's Paestum: Master Drawings Uncovered, which also includes prints and rare books of the period, sheds new light on this celebrated 18th-century artist's working method and on the considerable impact of his oeuvre on 18th- and 19th-century architectural taste.

The Cantor is the only West-Coast venue for this exhibition, which originated at Sir John Soane's Museum, London. While Piranesi (1720-1778) is primarily known as the creator of such famous print series as theVedute di Roma and especially theCarceri d'Invenzione, this exhibition focuses on some of his rare drawings. The Paestum drawings are Piranesi's most extensive body of work devoted to a single topographical site. For more information, please click here.

Source: IIC San Francisco