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Excerpt from Giovanni Battista Piranesi: A Critical Study, With a List of His Published Works, and Detailed Catalogues, of the Prisons and the Views of Rome
The introductory notes that follow, taken in part from my earlier articles, have two chief aims, the first bibliographical, i. E. An examination of the origins, dates, and content of Piranesi's work in relation to existing documents, the second an estimate of his place in the history of art and of the comparative artistic value of his different works. A short biography, and some description of his remarkable drawings complete their scope.
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