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Product Description: A renowned scholar examines the beauty and impact of drawings and prints by Piranesi, as well as the Italian architect's relationship with his friend and colleague Sir John Soane. An 18th-century architect and printmaker, Giovanni Battista Piranesi was a lifelong champion of Rome, publishing more than 1,000 etchings of the Eternal City and its ancient monuments...read more
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9783791348063 | Prestel Pub, February 25, 2013, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: A renowned scholar examines the beauty and impact of drawings and prints by Piranesi, as well as the Italian architect's relationship with his friend and colleague Sir John Soane.
Product Description: Renowned as one of the finest printmakers of the eighteenth century, Giovanni Battista Piranesi is best known for his etched views of Rome and its antiquities, as well as for his highly influential suite of drawings entitled Carceri, or Imaginary Prisons...read more
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9780910503952 | Cooper-Hewitt Museum of, January 30, 2008, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Renowned as one of the finest printmakers of the eighteenth century, Giovanni Battista Piranesi is best known for his etched views of Rome and its antiquities, as well as for his highly influential suite of drawings entitled Carceri, or Imaginary Prisons.
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9780910503969 | Editions Assouline, October 30, 2007, cover price $60.00
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9780826456083 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, March 30, 2006, cover price $250.00
Product Description: 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 famed engraver and designer not only contends that the Etruscans-not the Greeks-were the artistic mentors of the Romans but also argues for a Roman-inspired exuberance in design that draws freely on all forms and traditions of ancient art...read more
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9780892366361 | J Paul Getty Museum Pubns, November 7, 2002, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: 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.
Product Description: Piranesi's name is usually connected with intriguing and mysterious etchings, but Giambattisa Piranesi (1720-1778) was also influential as an architect and decorative arts designer. This book examines his work, theories, and impact on the design of architecture and the decorative arts, and it is written by a widely recognized authority on Piranesi...read more
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9780300053821 | Yale Univ Pr, October 1, 1993, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Piranesi's name is usually connected with intriguing and mysterious etchings, but Giambattisa Piranesi (1720-1778) was also influential as an architect and decorative arts designer.
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9781556601507 | Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, June 1, 1992, cover price $295.00
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9780500274774 | Thames & Hudson, March 1, 1988, cover price $24.95
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