Piranesi
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark work of art history, Jonathan Scott's "Piranesi" chronicles the full sweep of Giovanni Battista Piranesi's towering career as an eighteenth-century etcher, architect, and antiquarian, tracing his output from the atmospheric "Vedute di Roma" that immortalised the grandeur of papal Rome to his inventive schemes for furniture and interior design, and situating his singular achievements within the cosmopolitan world of Grand Tour Rome and the fierce scholarly controversies that shaped it, all illustrated with over 250 reproductions of his etchings.
Author: Jonathan Scott
Format: Hardback
Published: 1975, Academy Editions, London
Genre: Fantasy
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark work of art history, Jonathan Scott's "Piranesi" chronicles the full sweep of Giovanni Battista Piranesi's towering career as an eighteenth-century etcher, architect, and antiquarian, tracing his output from the atmospheric "Vedute di Roma" that immortalised the grandeur of papal Rome to his inventive schemes for furniture and interior design, and situating his singular achievements within the cosmopolitan world of Grand Tour Rome and the fierce scholarly controversies that shaped it, all illustrated with over 250 reproductions of his etchings.