Speaking Ruins: Piranesi, Architects and Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century Rome

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As they had during the Renaissance, ruins in the eighteenth century continued to serve as places of exchange between antiquity and modern times and between one architect and another. Rome functioned as a cultural entrep?t, drawing to it architects of the caliber of Filippo Juvarra, Robert Adam, Charles-Louis Cl?risseau, and Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Through their collaboration, on-site exchanges, publications, and polemics, architects contributed...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0472118218

ISBN13:9780472118212

Release Date:September 2012

Publisher:University of Michigan Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.75 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Architecture Art Arts, Music & Photography

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Speaking Ruins: Piranesi, Architects and Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century Rome

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