Piranesi's defence of Roman architectural invention.(Book Review)

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Observations on the Letter by Monsieur Mariette, with Opinions on Architecture, and a Preface to a new Treatise on the Introduction and Progress of the Fine Arts in Europe in Ancient Times, introduced by John Wilton-Ely. Getty Research Institute (1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles CA 90049-1682), Los Angeles 2002. 176 pp., ill., index. Pbk. Price: $US 35.00.

Piranesi ( 1720-1778) lived during the era of the Enlightenment, which questioned the received notions of all branches of human knowledge. It was also an era when the ...

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