Speaking Ruins : : Piranesi, Architects and Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century Rome
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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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Thomas Spencer Jerome lectures.
Ladies Library Collection.
PUBLISHED
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: xxiii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780472118212
SUBJECTS
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, -- 1720-1778 -- Aesthetics.
Architecture -- Rome -- History -- 18th century.
Architecture and history -- Rome.
Architecture, Classical -- Appreciation -- Europe.
Rome (Italy) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities.