Speaking ruins : Piranesi, architects and antiquity in eighteenth-century Rome / John A. Pinto.

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Bibliographic Details
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2012]
Main Author:
Pinto, John A.
Series:Jerome lectures ; 24th ser.
Subjects:
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, > 1720-1778 > Aesthetics.
Architecture > Italy > Rome > History > 18th century.
Architecture and history > Italy > Rome.
Architecture, Classical > Appreciation > Europe.
Rome (Italy) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Rome (Italy) > Antiquities.
Format: Book
Speaking ruins : Piranesi, architects and antiquity in eighteenth-century Rome /
Table of Contents:
  • The perspective of Janus
  • Taste, ornament, and the antique
  • Piranesi's "speaking ruins"
  • Giovanni Battista and Francesco Piranesi: the late archaeological publications
  • A wider prospect: expanding the repertoire of classicism
  • Conclusion.

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