• Diverse maniere d’adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi: desunte dall’architettura Egizia, Etrusca, e Greca con un Ragionamento Apologetico in difesa dell’Architettura Egizia, e Toscana. Rome: Nella Stamperia di Generoso Salomoni, 1769

Curatorial Notes:
  • Piranesi had a vicious sense of humor. A satirical vignette serves as the tailpiece to “An Apologetical Essay in Defence of the Egyptian and Tuscan Architecture,” which Piranesi published within the Diverse maniere, his book of mantelpiece designs. The tailpiece skewers Bernard Capmartin de Chaupy’s recently published Découverte de la maison de campagne d’Horace, on the search for Horace’s villa. With the distinctive shape of the topographical element plopped on the book’s cover, Piranesi signalled his opinion of Chaupy’s almost completely unillustrated work. The vignette demonstrates the extent to which producing books himself had placed Piranesi directly in conflict with others.
Date:
  • 1769
Format:
  • Book
Type:
  • Early works to 1800
Extent:
  • [2], 35, [3] p., [70] leaves of plates : ill. ; 58 cm.
Creator:
Publisher:
  • In Roma : Nella Stamperia di Generoso Salomoni, 1769.
Language:
  • Italian
  • English
  • French
Subject:
  • Chimneys—Design and construction—Early works to 1800
  • Fireplaces—Design and construction—Early works to 1800
Author:
  • Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
Alternative:
  • Divers manners of ornamenting chimneys
  • Differentes manieres d'orner les cheminées
References:
  • Hind, A.M. Piranesi (1922), p. 86
  • Focillon, H. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi (1918), 4e ptie (no 854-926)
Description:
  • Title and text in Italian, English, and French.
  • Plates variously numbered; main series consists of 66 numbered plates.
  • Added engraved double t.-p.; dedication counted as a plate.
  • SAX copy imperfect: letterpress t.p. and text wanting.
  • GAX copy imperfect: some plates wanting.
Credit line:
  • Rare Books, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
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Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/0p096h35c