Speaking ruins : Piranesi, architects and antiquity in eighteenth-century Rome / John A. Pinto.

Main entry:

Pinto, John A.

Title & Author:

Speaking ruins : Piranesi, architects and antiquity in eighteenth-century Rome / John A. Pinto.

Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2012]

Description:

xxiii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Thomas Spencer Jerome lectures

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

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.

ISBN:

9780472118212 (hardback)
0472118218 (hardback)

Subject:

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 Aesthetics.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista 1720-1778
Architecture Italy Rome History.
Architecture and history Italy Rome.
Architecture, Classical Appreciation Europe.
Architecture Italie Rome Histoire.
Architecture et histoire Italie Rome.
Architecture antique Appréciation Europe.
ART History Ancient & Classical.
ART History Renaissance.
ARCHITECTURE History General.
Aesthetics.
Antiquities.
Architecture.
Architecture and history.
Buildings.
Architektur
Antike
Rezeption
Architecture Italy Rome History 18th century.
Arkitektur historia.
Arkitektur och historia.
Rome (Italy) Buildings, structures, etc.
Rome (Italy) Antiquities.
Rome (Italie) Antiquités.
Europe.
Italy Rome.
Italien
Italien Rom.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Jerome lectures ; 24th ser.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 281183
Call No.: BIB 218309
Status: Available

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