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- ISBN 9781916237872
- Dimensions: 222 x 305mm
- Publication Date: 08 Sep 2026
- Publisher: The Burlington Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The first facsimile photographic reproduction of Pier Leone Ghezzi’s Studio di Molte Pietre (1726) a collection of finely executed watercolour drawings that depict ancient Roman coloured marble
The publication intends to offer a facsimile photographic reproduction of the complete manuscript, bookended by introductory, contextual and interpretative essays.
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Dr Adriano Aymonino is the Director of the MA in the Art Market and the History of Collecting at the University of Buckingham. His publications include Drawn from the Antique: Artists and the Classical Ideal (Sir John Soane’s Museum, 2015); Enlightened Eclecticism (PMC for Yale University Press, 2021 – winner of the 2022 William MB Berger Prize for British Art History) and a revised and updated edition of Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny’s Taste and the Antique (Brepols, 3 vols, 2024). He is currently working on a critical edition of Robert Adam's Grand Tour correspondence, which will be hosted on the Sir John Soane’s Museum website (2025). He is also an associate editor for the Journal of the History of Collections.
