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Piranesi as interpreter of Roman Architecture and the origins of his intellectual word

Piranesi as interpreter of Roman Architecture and the origins of his intellectual word

Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki

English Text.
Firenze, 2006; paperback, pp. 379, b/w ill., cm 15x21.
(Pocket Library of Studies in Art. 36).

series: Pocket Library of Studies in Art

ISBN: 88-222-5476-7 - EAN13: 9788822254764

Subject: Essays (Art or Architecture),Graphic Arts (Prints, Drawings, Engravings, Miniatures),History of Architecture,Monographs (Painting and Drawing),Towns

Period: 0-1000 (0-XI) Ancient World,1400-1800 (XV-XVIII) Renaissance

Places: Rome

Languages: english text  

Weight: 0.56 kg


The book is devoted to G.B. Piranesi as a scholar of Roman architecture, and analyzes his polemic against the philhellene scholars of antiquities, in the light of new documents. The author finds the precedents for Piranesi's concepts in classical and Renaissance literature and architecture, highlighting Cato Major's traditionalist stand and the rusticated architecture which expresses it as the sources of influence on the artist. Piranesi's views are analyzed in the context of other architectural theories current in 18th-century Italy.

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