Giambattista Piranesi

The Polemical Works

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Hershel Levit

Reproductions of outstanding architectural etchings by the renowned eighteenth-century Italian architect and contemporary photographs of the same monuments reveal changes that time has and has not produced in Rome

Views of Rome, Then and Now

Carlo Bertelli

Alessandro Bettagno

incisioni, rami, legature, architetture

Piranesi

Daniel Rabreau

Prisons

Piranèse

An impassioned plea for a Roman-Style eclecticism that draws freely on all artistic forms and traditions, Piranesi's Observations anticipates the contemporary debate between devotees of a rational, minimal architecture and advocates of an architecture rich in ornament and historical references."--BOOK JACKET.

With Opinions on Architecture, and a Preface to a New Treatise on the Introduction and Progress of the Fine Arts in Europe in Ancient Times

Observations on the Letter of Monsieur Mariette

Pierpont Morgan Library

Felice Stampfle

Catalogs Piranesi's numerous designs for buildings and furnishings as well as his rare figure studies

Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library

Giambattista Piranesi

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