Speaking ruins Piranesi, architects and antiquity in eighteenth-century Rome /

Main Author: Pinto, John A.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2012]
Physical Description: xxiii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series: Jerome lectures ; 24th ser.
Subjects:
Item Description: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-295) and index.
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.
Physical Description: xxiii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-295) and index.
ISBN: 9780472118212
0472118218