From The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project:
2 September 2023 Saturday
Tour for a visiting King: after Franklin Court go to Welcome Park, and then to Christ's Church, and then the Arch Street Friends Meeting House. Take a stroll down to Congress Hall to see the first United States Senate and House of Representatives (and compare the interior of Arch Street Friends Meeting House with the House of Representatives). Then take a look at the Egyptian Revival facade, go to the Philadelphia Exchange, and ultimately something controversial, the Christopher Columbus Obelisk.
Bianconi's Doctoring Piranesi
episode 1: "Who's not an Imperial Piranesian?"
episode 2: "Discovery Fatigue"
episode 3: "...and now they're trying to weaponize it."
episode 4: "The Peace of the Pie"
episode 5: "Nowadays they call it 'going out on a détente'"
episode 6: "Bianconi's Banishment"
episode 7: "When in Rome: The Francesco and Louis-Alexandre Story"
episode 8: "Making Art History at Penn's Furness Library"
The heart and soul of the Bianconi vs Piranesi 'Circus of Caracalla' affair is the Piranesi and Pâris 'Circus of Caracalla' affair. Piranesi employed Pâris to mentor Francesco, and Piranesi 'paid' Pâris by mentoring Pâris--that was the basic concept of their arrangement--very electro-magnetic in that what the heart pumps is what makes the heart pump. Piranesi, Pâris, and Francesco worked as a kind-of perpetual motion machine.
Did Pâris keep in touch with Piranesi and/or Francesco (and vice versa)?
Pâris outlived both Piranesi and Francesco, and he went quite far in life.
François-André Vincent Portrait of Pierre-Adrien Pâris 1774
2023.09.02
[2024.09.02 spoiler alert: The Piranesi and Pâris 'Circus of Caracalla' affair described above, by the end of The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project, was more like the Francesco Piranesi and Pâris 'Circus of Caracalla' affair.]
   
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Philadelphia Museum of Art
2003.09.02
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