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- W2217655058 abstract "John A. Pinto Speaking Ruins: Piranesi, Architects, and Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century Rome Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012, 352 pp., 192 b/w illus. $65 (cloth), ISBN 9780472118212John Wilton-Ely Piranesi, Paestum & Soane Munich: Prestel, 2013, 120 pp., 58 color illus. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 9783791348063A letter of 1774 from William Chambers to a former student living in Rome draws attention to that city’s seminal importance in architectural education. “Converse much with Artists of All Countrys particularly foreigners,” Chambers wrote. “Seek for those who have most reputation. … Amongst which forget not Piranesi, who you may See in my name, he is full of Matter, extravagant ’tis true, often Absurd, but from his overflowings You may gather much information. … Form if you can a style of Your own,” he urged, “in which endeavour to avoid the faults and blend the Perfections of all.”1 Thus Chambers advocated an eclectic design process for which the Rome of Giovanni Battista Piranesi furnished the crucible. Both books discussed in this review reinforce the wisdom of Chambers’s remarks and elucidate the role played by publications of new archaeological finds.Prestel’s handsome second edition of John Wilton-Ely’s Piranesi, Paestum & Soane of 2002 definitely improves upon the original softbound version published by Azimuth Editions. Larger format, more durable binding, and higher quality color reproductions enhance the contents, notably the illustrations featured in the central section: Piranesi’s seventeen magnificent drawings of the three antique Doric temples at Paestum (Greek Poseidonia) in southern Italy. In most other respects, the editions are identical except that noted Piranesi specialist Wilton-Ely updates notes 48–74 and the bibliography to reflect advances in scholarship. Puzzlingly, nowhere except in the acknowledgments does any mention of the Azimuth first edition occur. And the dust jacket blurb describes Soane as Piranesi’s “contemporary, friend, and colleague,” belying the scant evidence of any such close personal relationship presented inside the covers. This caveat and bibliographic questions aside, the second edition makes an insightful and visually appealing contribution to the literature.Wilton-Ely’s nine chapters start with one titled “Piranesi, Paestum & Soane,” in …" @default.
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- W2217655058 title "Review: Speaking Ruins: Piranesi, Architects, and Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century Rome by John A. Pinto; Piranesi, Paestum & Soane by John Wilton-Ely" @default.
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