Giovanni Battista Piranesi: rediscovering antiquity

Activity: Conference/talk/lecture/symposium/speech/workshop, etcEvent organized by non-HKBU units

Description

Research paper presented on the occasion of the international conference titled Piranesi and the Global Impact of the Late Baroque, organised at the University of Melbourne on 27-28/02/2014

The study investigates how Giovanni Battista Piranesi's engraved representations of Roman ancient buildings impacted eighteenth and nineteenth century theories of architectural conservation.
Period27 Feb 2014
Held atThe University of Melbourne
Degree of RecognitionInternational