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Robert Adam's design for Osterley Park includes
a classical gateway, corner towers, and a
courtyard, none of which are found in any villa
by Palladi

Giambattista Piranesi is the most improtant name of the romantic discourse. He is a Venetian

architect, and engineer. His works are famous with exaggerated scale, theatrical angles, lightning
effects, a mood of decaying grandeur, elaborate detail. His design features are darkness, solitude,
thrill, labyrinthian, cruosity... He is not only the ancestor of archaeologists, archivists and even

architects; but also the ancestor of those who create dream and nightmare worlds.

The Colosseum, from Vedute di Roma The ruins of the dining room at Nero's Golden
House are from Vedute di Roma, a T h e p o w e r o f t h e s e a b r a s i o n s l i e s i n ' r a n d o m
135-episode print cycle for Grand Tourists. h u mi l i a t i o n i n s p a c e ' , t h e f o r e r u n n e r o f i n v i s i b l e a n d
Courtesy of Herbert Orth / LIFE Images u n t o l d h o r r o r . C o u r t e s y o f D e A g o s t i n i / Ge t t y I ma g e s