Della Magnificenza e d'Architettura de' Romani (On the Grandeur and the Architecture of the Romans by Gio. Battista Piranesi

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Della Magnificenza e d'Architettura de' Romani (On the Grandeur and the Architecture of the Romans by Gio. Battista Piranesi, Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of London), 1761, 1765, Etchings and engravings, Overall: 22 1/16 x 16 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. (56 x x 7 cm), Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome), Domenico Cunego (Italian, Verona 1727–1803 Rome), Giovanni Battista Piranesi's 'Della Magnificenza e d'Architettura de' Romani' was a contribution to the continuing debate as to whether Greek art and architecture was superior to that of Rome. In the 1750s, intellectual circles were increasingly in favor of Greece

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