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

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

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Update Date

February 17, 2023