Speaking ruins: Piranesi, architects, and antiquity in eighteenth-century Rome

Contents

ch. One The Perspective of Janus -- Carlo Fontana: Architecture and Erudition -- Filippo Juvarra: Architecture and Archaeology -- Francesco Bianchini: Evidence and Fantasy -- Fischer von Erlach: Architecture and History -- ch. Two Taste, Ornament, and the Antique -- Nicola Salvi and the Trevi Fountain -- Piranesi's "New Ornaments and New Manners" -- Santa Maria del Priorato -- Projects for the Lateran Tribune -- The MacDonald Monument -- Conclusion -- ch. Three Piranesi's "Speaking Ruins" -- Piranesi's Response to Roman Architecture -- Fragment and Fantasy -- Piranesi and the Forma Urbis Romae -- "Love for Antiquity": The Direct Experience of the Site -- ch. Four Giovanni Battista and Francesco Piranesi: The Late Archaeological Publications -- Hadrian's Villa -- Lago Fucino -- Pompeii -- Paestum -- Conclusion -- ch. Five A Wider Prospect: Expanding the Repertoire of Classicism -- The Formative Experience of Rome -- Wood and Dawkins -- Stuart and Revett -- Robert Adam and "The Beautiful Spirit of Antiquity" -- Conclusion.