Misir, Etrusk, Roma: Piranesi ve bir on sekizinci yuzyil tartismasi/Egyptian, Etruscan, Roman: Piranesi and an eighteenth century discussion

Re-examines prevailing conceptions about the origins of European architecture by revisiting an 18th century debate on the theme. The feature focuses on the pictorial and literary works of Venetian architect and thinker Giovanni Battista Piranesi, (1720-1778), asserting that, (in contrast, it says, to those of German art historian and archaeologist Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768)), Piranesi does not perpetuate notions of an original divide between Eastern and Western traditions, or myths of Orientalism.