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The Ruins of Palmyra and Baalbek - Volumes I-II (Hardcover)
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The Ruins of Palmyra and Baalbek - Volumes I-II (Hardcover)
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First published in the 1750s, The Ruins of Palmyra and The Ruins of
Baalbek are a remarkable record of an expedition to the Levant by
three antiquarians - Robert Wood, John Bouverie and James Dawkins -
along with a draftsman, Giovanni Battista Borra. With over 100
engravings of the classical architecture of the two ancient cities
of Palmyra and Baalbek, the volumes represent the earliest-known
examples of monographs on archaeological sites. They were unique in
providing systematic discussion of the sites' physical and human
geography alongside two kinds of pictorial evidence: views of the
ancient sites in their then-present state and detailed plans, with
measurements, of architectural features. This new approach was
immediately copied by antiquarians in the later 18th century and
also had great influence upon Neoclassical architecture in Britain,
Europe and North America. This new edition features reproductions
of all the engravings from the original publications and includes a
new introduction by noted scholar, Benjamin Anderson (Cornell
University, USA).
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