Observations on the Letter of Mariette: With Opinions on Architecture and a Preface to a New Treatise on the Introduction and Progress on the Fine Arts in Europe in Ancient Times (Texts & Documents)

by JohnWilton-Ely (Introduction), David Britt (Introduction), Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Author), Caroline Beamish (Introduction)

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  2002

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  Published in 1765, Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Osservazioni is an impassioned defence of the superiority of Roman architectural invention over the beautiful and noble simplicity of Ancient Greece. This is an English translation of Piranesi's three-part polemical work.