Various Roman Ionic capitals compared with Greek examples from Le Roy S. Maria in Trastevere, S. Paoplo fuori le Mura, S. Clemente, etc., from Della Magnificenza e d'Architettura de'Romani (On the Grandeur and the Architecture of the Romans by Gio. Battista Piranesi, Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of London), tab. 20. Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720-1778 Rome). Dimensions: Plate: 15 3/4 x 23 9/16 in. (40 x 59.8 cm)Sheet: 21 1/4 x 31 1/2 in. (54 x 80 cm). Series/Portfolio: Della Magnificenza e d'Architettura de'Romani. Date: mid-18th century.In 1758, the French architect Julien-David Le Roy published 'Les ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grèce' (The ruins of the most beautiful monuments of Greece) in which he proclaimed that the architectural orders were a Greek invention inherited by the Romans who imitated and subsequently debased them. Le Roy wrote of the Roman Composite order, "It is only a fairly imperfect mixture of the Ionic and

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Various Roman Ionic capitals compared with Greek examples from Le Roy S. Maria in Trastevere, S. Paoplo fuori le Mura, S. Clemente, etc., from Della Magnificenza e d'Architettura de'Romani (On the Grandeur and the Architecture of the Romans by Gio. Battista Piranesi, Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of London), tab. 20. Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720-1778 Rome). Dimensions: Plate: 15 3/4 x 23 9/16 in. (40 x 59.8 cm)Sheet: 21 1/4 x 31 1/2 in. (54 x 80 cm). Series/Portfolio: Della Magnificenza e d'Architettura de'Romani. Date: mid-18th century.In 1758, the French architect Julien-David Le Roy published 'Les ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grèce' (The ruins of the most beautiful monuments of Greece) in which he proclaimed that the architectural orders were a Greek invention inherited by the Romans who imitated and subsequently debased them. Le Roy wrote of the Roman Composite order, "It is only a fairly imperfect mixture of the Ionic and

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