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

Title: Speaking ruins : Piranesi, architects and antiquity in eighteenth-century Rome / John A. Pinto.
Author: Pinto, John A.
Publication: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2012]

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Description

xxiii, 304 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

As they had during the Renaissance, ruins in the eighteenth century continued to serve as places of exchange between antiquity and modern times and between one architect and another. Rome functioned as a cultural entrepôt, drawing to it architects of the caliber of Filippo Juvarra, Robert Adam, Charles-Louis Clérisseau, and Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Through their collaboration, on-site exchanges, publications, and polemics, architects contributed notably to fashioning a more critical and sophisticated view of the material heritage of classical antiquity, one that we associate with the Enlightenment and the origins of modern archaeology. In this lavishly illustrated volume stemming from his Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures at the University of Michigan and the American Academy in Rome, distinguished architectural historian John A. Pinto traces an extraordinary path through the development of European architecture. This period saw the transformation of history and archaeology. Texts were treated more skeptically as scholars placed greater reliance on artifacts as sources of information, and architects such as Giovanni Battista Piranesi increasingly played a crucial role in the recording and visual presentation of ancient art and architecture. - from Amazon.

Series Statement

Thomas Spencer Jerome lectures

Uniform Title

Jerome lectures ; 24th ser.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

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

Source (note)

John Pinto ;

Provenance (note)

Dedication in ink by the author to Julie Mellby, first blank leaf.

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.

ISBN

9780472118212
0472118218

LCCN

2012000986

OCLC

ocn768168479
768168479
SCSB-1664566

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library