Accademia di Francia (Rome)
Brunel (Georges), editor
Piranèse et les Français : Colloque tenu à la Villa Médicis (12-14 mai 1976; Collection Académie de France à Rome, 2)
Rome, Edizioni dell'Elefante, 1978
(30.5 cm), (8), 611 (3) pp., illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - Essays by twenty-seven contributors, including Allan Braham (Piranesi as archaeologist and French architecture in the late eighteenth century), Richard Wunder (The spread of “piranesism” to France through Legeay and Challe), H.A. Millon (Vasi, Piranesi, Juvarra), and T.J. McCormick (Piranesi and Clérisseau’s vision of classical antiquity). “Rectifications et adjonctions au catalogue Piranèse et les Français 1740-1790” (pp.567-578). ¶ Minor defects to dust jacket; otherwise, a fine copy.