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

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

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

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

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Publisher

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2012.

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N720.94563/4

Record Identifier

74Vv0aRvv7LX

MMS ID

991015800279702626

Language

English

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Physical content

xxiii, 304 pages, [24] pages of plates : ill. (some color), maps, plans ; 24 cm.

Content type

text

Media type

unmediated

Carrier type

volume

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.

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Publisher

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2012.

Place of Publication

Michigan

Date Published

c2012.

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Full title

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

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Notes

General note

Thomas Spencer Jerome lectures.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-295) and index.

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Date Copyright

c2012.

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Call Numbers

N720.94563/4

Record Identifier

74Vv0aRvv7LX

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv0aRvv7LX

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ISBN

0472118218 (hardback)

9780472118212 (hardback)

DDC

720.94563209033

MMS ID

991015800279702626

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