Andrew Lumisden : a Scotsman in Piranesi's Rome ; Rome transfigurée dans "les tableaux de l'architecture" : recordings, 1993.

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Andrew Lumisden : a Scotsman in Piranesi's Rome ; Rome transfigurée dans "les tableaux de l'architecture" : recordings, 1993.

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Recordings of public lectures given by University of Toronto professor Michael McCarthy and Research Curator at the CCA Myra Nan Rosenfeld held on Oct. 12, 1993 at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Exploring Rome : Piranesi and his contemporaries"/"À la découverte de Rome : Piranèse et ses contemporains", on view at the CCA from Aug. 17, 1993-Jan. 2, 1994, which was concerned with eighteenth-century artists, collectors, and antiquarians who, through their studies and explorations in Rome, created and spread a new vision of antiquity.

2 sound cassettes (DAT) : digital ; 2 7/8 x 2 1/8 in., 1/8 in. tape.2 sound cassettes (ca. 64 min.) : analog.

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Centre canadien d'architecture, | Canadian Centre for Architecture | CCA

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Lumisden, Andrew, 1720-1801

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Epithet: of Stowe MS 155 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000705.0x0001e6 Private secretary to Charles Edward, the Young Pretender. From the description of Signature on document. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270593261 From the description of Signature on receipt : Macclesfield, 1745 Dec. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270593267 ...

McCarthy, Michael J., 1939-

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Centre canadien d'architecture

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Rosenfeld, Myra Nan

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Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778

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The son of Angelo and Laura Piranesi, Giambattista Piranesi first came to Rome in 1740 as a young architect from Venice. He studied Roman history with an older brother, studied engraving in the studio of Giuseppe Vasi, as well as the art of perspective. In 1743, he traveled to Naples and studied painting, returning to Venice for a year when he became ill. He returned to Rome eventually moving to the Strada Felice at the Palazzo Tomati. He never left Rome after 1745 except briefly to Etruscan sit...