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Author:
Pinto, John A.
Title:
Speaking ruins : Piranesi, architects, and antiquity in eighteenth-century Rome / John A. Pinto.
Publisher:
University of Michigan Press,
Copyright Date:
c2012
Description:
xxiii, 304 pages, [24] pages of plates : ill. (some color), maps, plans ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Architecture--Rome--Rome--History--18th century.
Architecture and history--Rome.--Rome.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista,--1720-1778--Aesthetics.
Architecture, Classical--Appreciation--Europe.
Rome (Italy)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Rome (Italy)--Antiquities.
ART / History / Ancient & Classical.
ART / History / Renaissance.
ARCHITECTURE / History / General.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-295) and index.
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.
Series:
Thomas Spencer Jerome lectures
ISBN:
0472118218 (hardback)
9780472118212 (hardback)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)768168479
LCCN:
2012000986
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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