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The Digital Piranesi

"On Les Plus Beaux Monuments de la Grece," (1 of 2) from On the Magnificence and Architecture of the Romans

"On Les Plus Beaux Monuments de la Grece," Della Magnificenza ed architettura de’Romani, Plate XXXV (Opere, vol. 7). In this plate, Piranesi surrounds a “visual citation” of plates from David Le Roy's 1758 treatise Les Plus Beaux Monuments de la Grece with his own more dramatic illustrations of details from Roman architecture in order to challenge Le Roy’s claims about the superiority of Greek aesthetics.

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1. "On Les Plus Beaux Monuments de la Grece," (1 of 2) from On the Magnificence and Architecture of the Romans "On Les Plus Beaux Monuments de la Grece," Della Magnificenza ed architettura de’Romani, Plate XXXV (Opere, vol. 7). In this plate, Piranesi surrounds a “visual citation” of plates from David Le Roy's 1758 treatise Les Plus Beaux Monuments de la Grece with his own more dramatic illustrations of details from Roman architecture in order to challenge Le Roy’s claims about the superiority of Greek aesthetics.