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PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista (1720-78). Le Antichita Romane. Rome: Salamoni, 1784.
4 volumes, 2o. 224 numbered plates, portrait of Piranesi replacing Polanzani portrait and dedication to Gustavus III replacing that to the public and posterity. 19th-century red quarter morocco (worn, some joints broken).
Later edition. The publication of the Antichita confirmed Piranesi as "the foremost artistic proponent of Roman architecture" (Robison, Piranesi (1986) p.11). It depicts archaeological monuments and sites, sepulchral monuments, reconstructions of engineering feats, ancient bridges, baths and other structures. The etchings, with their combination of technical skill, historical accuracy and artistic vision, show that, as Robert Adam observed, "he alone might be said to breath the Antient Air." See Hind 183-4; See Focillon 144-395. (4)
4 volumes, 2o. 224 numbered plates, portrait of Piranesi replacing Polanzani portrait and dedication to Gustavus III replacing that to the public and posterity. 19th-century red quarter morocco (worn, some joints broken).
Later edition. The publication of the Antichita confirmed Piranesi as "the foremost artistic proponent of Roman architecture" (Robison, Piranesi (1986) p.11). It depicts archaeological monuments and sites, sepulchral monuments, reconstructions of engineering feats, ancient bridges, baths and other structures. The etchings, with their combination of technical skill, historical accuracy and artistic vision, show that, as Robert Adam observed, "he alone might be said to breath the Antient Air." See Hind 183-4; See Focillon 144-395. (4)
PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista (1720-78). Le Antichita Romane. Rome: Salamoni, 1784.
4 volumes, 2o. 224 numbered plates, portrait of Piranesi replacing Polanzani portrait and dedication to Gustavus III replacing that to the public and posterity. 19th-century red quarter morocco (worn, some joints broken).
Later edition. The publication of the Antichita confirmed Piranesi as "the foremost artistic proponent of Roman architecture" (Robison, Piranesi (1986) p.11). It depicts archaeological monuments and sites, sepulchral monuments, reconstructions of engineering feats, ancient bridges, baths and other structures. The etchings, with their combination of technical skill, historical accuracy and artistic vision, show that, as Robert Adam observed, "he alone might be said to breath the Antient Air." See Hind 183-4; See Focillon 144-395. (4)
4 volumes, 2o. 224 numbered plates, portrait of Piranesi replacing Polanzani portrait and dedication to Gustavus III replacing that to the public and posterity. 19th-century red quarter morocco (worn, some joints broken).
Later edition. The publication of the Antichita confirmed Piranesi as "the foremost artistic proponent of Roman architecture" (Robison, Piranesi (1986) p.11). It depicts archaeological monuments and sites, sepulchral monuments, reconstructions of engineering feats, ancient bridges, baths and other structures. The etchings, with their combination of technical skill, historical accuracy and artistic vision, show that, as Robert Adam observed, "he alone might be said to breath the Antient Air." See Hind 183-4; See Focillon 144-395. (4)