Ruins of the most beautiful - monuments of greece

Klappentext This is one in a trilogy of Texts & Documents volumes presenting key sources in the eighteenth-century Graeco-Roman debate. It accompanies new translations of writings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Johann Joachim Winckelmann. Zusammenfassung First published in 1758! this was the book that brought the wonders of Greek classical architecture to the notice of the Western world. This is a translation of the second! considerably expanded! edition of 1770.

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• Authors: David Britt, . Le Roy, j d middleton Le roy, Julien-David Le Roy, . Le Roy
• Assisted by: David Britt (Translation)
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2004
• EAN: 9780892366699
• ISBN: 978-0-89236-669-9
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 255 mm x 46 mm
• Series: Getty Research Institute Texts & Documents; Texts & Documents (Paperback); Texts & Documents; BIBLIOTHECA PAEDIATRICA REF KARGER; Getty Publications - (Yale); Texts and Documents
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture