Piranesi as Architect and Designer

Book

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Historic Charleston Foundation

Name/Title

Piranesi as Architect and Designer

Entry/Object ID

2016.002.122

Description

Evaluates Piranesi's activities, theories, and influence as a trained architect, asserting that the artist's etchings and drawings, with their visionary interpretations of antiquity, played a highly significant role in the formation of the neoclassical style. 186 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Library

Acquisition

Accession

2016.002

Source or Donor

New Library Catalog Records (2016)

Acquisition Method

Found in Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

Book Details

Author

Wilton-Ely, John

Publisher

Yale University Press

Place Published

Location

New Haven, CT

Date Published

circa 1993

Call No.

NE2052.5 .P5 W55 1993

ISBN

0300053827

LCCN

93085191

Notes

Copy No.: 0

Location

Location

Building

Missroon Library

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

General Notes

Note

Notes: By John Wilton-Ely. "Publication of this book was made possible by funds provided by the Franklin Jasper Walls lectures"--P. i. Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-181) and index. Co-published by The Peirpont Morgan Library (New York). Inscribed by the author to HCF.

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Create Date

December 21, 2016

Updated By

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Update Date

February 17, 2023