Book Description: This book is an essay on architectural drawings of the Greek and Roman world. The first chapter is focused on the possibility that ancient treatises of architectures were endowed ...

Piranesi’s powerful rendition of Doric architecture. (Courtesy of Cantor Arts Center) In 1777, Italian printmaker and architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi visited the ancient Greek city of ...

From ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, April 1922 PART IV: The Technique of Architectural Polychromy. Light & Shade as Media for developing Tone Interest in Flat Color. The Greek Method for ...