Following the invention of the daguerreotype and calotype processes in 1839, views of ruins, classical statuary, and the antiquities of the Mediterranean and ...
Continue Reading →The six chapters are headed, 1. Sicily; 2. Syracuse; 3. Agrigentum; 4. Selinus; 5. Ægesta [sc. Segesta]; 6. Posidonia, Or Paestum. The Appendix ...
Continue Reading →A treatise on ancient painting, containing observations on the rise, progress, and decline of that art amongst the Greeks and Romans; the high ...
Continue Reading →The Baths of the Romans Explained and Illustrated: with the restorations of Palladio corrected and improved, to which is prefixed, an introductory preface, ...
Continue Reading →No publication-date appears on the title page, but the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography states that the book was published in 1842 (although ...
Continue Reading →Wood had visited the Greek islands, Syria and Egypt in 1742-3. In 1749 he was in Rome joining forces with John Bouverie, James ...
Continue Reading →Containing a description and views of the remaining antiquities, with the Ancient and Modern History, inscriptions and some observations on the Ancient Doric ...
Continue Reading →The text of Volumes I, II, is given in English and French in parallel; that of Volumes III, IV, in French only. This ...
Continue Reading →Excerpt from The Architectural Antiquities of Rome, Vol. 1: These Columns differ only three inches in height, but vary considerably in their proportions, ...
Continue Reading →Published By Order Of The Society Of Dilettanti Ionian Antiquities, Published, with Permission of the Society of Dilettanti, by R. Chandler, M.A. F.S.A., ...
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