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The Girandola at Castel Sant'Angelo.
Francesco Piranesi (Italian, 1756–1810) and Louis-Jean Desprez (French, 1743–1804).
Etching with colored washes; sheet.
Rogers Fund, 1969 (69.510).
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Fireworks! Four Centuries of Pyrotechnics in Prints and Drawings
June 6, 2000–September 17, 2000
No form of entertainment involves so much ingenuity and expense for such a dazzling, but woefully ephemeral, effect as fireworks. Despite their fleeting nature—or, indeed, because of it—attempts have continually been made to record the visual appearance of fireworks displays. This exhibition includes over 100 prints and drawings, primarily from the Metropolitan's collection, illustrating fireworks celebrating births, weddings, military victories, national holidays, or technological triumphs such as the Brooklyn Bridge. The works—by Claude Lorrain, Francesco Piranesi, Winslow Homer, and Edgar Degas, among others—date from the 16th to the 20th century.
The exhibition is accompanied by a Museum Bulletin.
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