English miscellany: a symposium of history, literature and the arts, Volume 3British Council, 1952 - Art A symposium of history, literature and the arts. |
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... Piranesi . An architect by training , he earned his living mainly as an artist , trying to convey in his engravings of the ruins of Rome an idea of the lost grandeur of the classical city . His enthusiasm went together with a natur- al ...
... Piranesi . An architect by training , he earned his living mainly as an artist , trying to convey in his engravings of the ruins of Rome an idea of the lost grandeur of the classical city . His enthusiasm went together with a natur- al ...
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... Piranesi's fantasies . Most interesting of the English Romantic comments on Piranesi is a description by Coleridge in de Quincey's Confes- sions as follows : Many years ago , when I was looking over Piranesi's Antiquities of Rome ...
... Piranesi's fantasies . Most interesting of the English Romantic comments on Piranesi is a description by Coleridge in de Quincey's Confes- sions as follows : Many years ago , when I was looking over Piranesi's Antiquities of Rome ...
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... Piranesi is perceived , by this time standing on the very brink of the abyss . Once again elevate your eye , and a still more aƫrial flight is descried ; and there , again , is the delirious Piranesi , busy on his aspiring labours : and ...
... Piranesi is perceived , by this time standing on the very brink of the abyss . Once again elevate your eye , and a still more aƫrial flight is descried ; and there , again , is the delirious Piranesi , busy on his aspiring labours : and ...
Contents
Giacomo Devoto Anglosassone o Inglese antico | 25 |
Siegfried Korninger Lord Byron und Nikolaus Lenau | 39 |
Leslie A Marchand Recent Byron Scholarship | 145 |
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