Title Speaking ruins : Piranesi, architects, and antiquity in eighteenth-century Rome / John A. Pinto

Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2012] ©2012

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Description xxiii, 304 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 24 cm Series Thomas Spencer Jerome lectures Jerome lectures ; 24th ser 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-295) and index Subject Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 -- Aesthetics. Architecture -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- 18th century. Architecture and history -- Italy -- Rome. Architecture, Classical -- Appreciation -- Europe. SUBJECT Rome (Italy) -- Buildings, structures, etc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116728 Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115189 LC no. 2012000986 ISBN 9780472118212 (hardback) 0472118218 (hardback)

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