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Language: en
Pages: 192

Observations on the Letter of Monsieur Mariette

Authors: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Getty Publications

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An impassioned plea for a Roman-Style eclecticism that draws freely on all artistic forms and traditions, Piranesi's Observations anticipates the contemporary d
Mariette and the Science of the Connoisseur in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Language: en
Pages: 343

Mariette and the Science of the Connoisseur in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Authors: Kristel Smentek
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-05 - Publisher: Routledge

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Celebrated connoisseur, drawings collector, print dealer, book publisher and authority on the art of antiquity, Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774) was a pivotal f
Language: en
Pages: 274

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The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece
Language: en
Pages: 572

The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece

Authors: David Le Roy
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Getty Publications

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The striking engravings of Julien-David Le Roy's The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece (1758) first revealed the architectural wonders of ancient
Piranesi's Candelabra and the Presence of the Past
Language: en
Pages: 221

Piranesi's Candelabra and the Presence of the Past

Authors: Caroline van Eck
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-01-17 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) created three colossal candelabra mainly from fragments of sculpture excavated near the Villa Had