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Description: Hadrian’s Villa and Its Legacy
Conditions at the Villa, and artistic and intellectual perceptions of it, changed greatly in the nineteenth century. Many internal property barriers were removed in the early 1870s, when the government of the new kingdom of Italy purchased half the site — four hundred years after Pius II and Biondi had identified it. Until then, a sense of the totality of the heavily built-up areas was hard to come by (true today of the extensive tract still in private hands); in this light, Piranesi’s work …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.306-330
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00061.014

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