Piranesi entered the heated 18th-century "Graeco-Roman" debate, defending Roman architecture against critics who favored Greek simplicity. He argued, through his treatise Della Magnificenza de l'Architettura de'Romani (1761), that Roman design was superior due to its inventive spirit and connection to Egyptian and Etruscan techniques.
Clarke’s is not a tormented artist; he is a gentle, joyful soul who keeps his journals meticulously, befriends the albatrosses, and sorts the dead skeletons of the House. The novel is a meditation on memory, identity, and the beauty of paying attention. Piranesi
If the Vedute represented a distortion of the external world, Piranesi’s represented a journey into the horrifying depths of the internal one. he is a gentle