The exhibition “Piranesi's Ideal City” opens in the museum-apartment of Arkhip Kuindzhi.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi was born on Venetian soil, but his whole life was connected with Rome. The city became not only a place of work, but also his main motive. The local architecture served as both a setting and a subject of study. The master considered himself the heir of ancient architects. Engravings with ruins, temples and arches, the grandeur of forms, strictness of proportions and scale - everything in his works is subordinated to the idea of immortality of Roman civilization. But Piranesi was not only interested in real monuments. He created his own worlds - architectural fantasies, where reality yields to imagination. Prisons, ruins of fictional buildings, labyrinths - on these sheets of paper lines lose stability, the perspective is frightening, and space becomes a mystery. The master's work influenced architects, writers and philosophers. He anticipated Romanticism and shaped the visual language of neoclassicism.