Exploring Rome: Piranesi and His Contemporaries

by Stephanie Wiles, Myra Nan Rosenfeld, Cara Dufour Denison, et al.

The response to Rome by eighteenth-century Italian, French, and British artists is the subject of this illustrated, large-format book. The focal point is a group of approximately 40 drawings and prints by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), whose views of Rome helped to create and spread fo new vision of antiquity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262540711
• ISBN13: 9780262540711
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 10.5" x 10.5"