Observations on the Letter of Monsieur Mariette: With Opinions on Architecture, with a Preface to a New Treatise on the Introduction and Progress of t by Giovanni Piranesi
Observations on the Letter of Monsieur Mariette: With Opinions on Architecture, with a Preface to a New Treatise on the Introduction and Progress of t
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Giovanni Piranesi
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Observations on the Letter of Monsieur Mariette: With Opinions on Architecture, with a Preface to a New Treatise on the Introduction and Progress of t

Giovanni Piranesi with David Britt (Translator)

192 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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Published in 1765, Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Osservazioni is an impassioned defense of the superiority of Roman architectural "invention" over the "beautiful and noble simplicity" of ancient Greece. In this three-part polemical masterpiece, the...

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